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From: glenn@physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers)
Subject: Assembly version of libm.a
Message-ID: <1992Aug10.013952.4620@rp.CSIRO.AU>
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Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 01:39:52 GMT
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Hi folks,
	it's kinda nice when someone appreciates your code :-). Now for some
comments...

	I originally wrote the libm.a replacement to get around some inefficiencies
in System V r3.2. The world was rosy, gdb could examine the floating point
stack and I could easily see what my routines were doing. Now I have 
System V r4.0.3, gdb cannot examine the floating point stack and sdb is even
worse :-( so libm development went into retirement. I am interested in starting
up again (although my PhD work *has* to come first) and I have a few suggestions
for things that could be done easily. If anyone is interested in working on
this stuff please email me.

Cheers,
	Glenn
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