RE: long double (was "strtold?")

["Howland Craig D (Craig)" <howland at LGSInnovations dot com>]

>Jeff Johnston wrote:
>>      (By the way, so far for the math library I have ceill, floorl,
>> nearbyintl, rintl, truncl, fpclassify, and some of the other similar
>> easy ones.  They basically function but need polish.  I will need
some
>> kind of help for the numerical (e.g. sine, log) functions as I don't
>> know enough to write them.  Anyone who'd like to help, let me know.)
>>
>It can definitely be a can of worms regarding accuracy as the mathfp
>experiment has proven.
>
>A number of the libm routines were originally taken from Sun.  You
might
>want to check if there are
>already long double versions out there from Sun if you haven't already
>done so.
     I have done some looking, and was not finding much; I've found one
or two candidates, but not a whole set like I had expected.  (For
example, FreeBSD has just the easy ones like those I've mentioned.)
I'll
do more searching later.  Hopefully people can keep it in mind and maybe
we'll stumble across a set that we can import.  I had hoped to find a
set under OpenSolaris, but they don't appear to have the math library
visible.
     I share your concern about checking.  Related to that, I did find
an arbitrary-precision package that has the transcendentals that could
be used for checking.
				Craig