JDK 8 code review request for 7075098: Remove unused fdlibm files

[Alan Bateman]

Joe Darcy wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Please review these straightforward changes for
>
>    7075098: Remove unused fdlibm files
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/7075098.0/
>
> The JDK math libraries in java.lang.{Math, StrictMath} do not expose 
> all the functionality implemented in the embedded copy of FDLIBM 
> (freely distributable math library).  Since we do not plan do expose 
> the remaining functionality (erf, gamma, lgama, j0, j1, jn, acosh, 
> asinh, etc.) and these functions are not needed by the Java core libs 
> directly or by transitivity, this changeset removes the unneeded files 
> from the build.
>
> On my Linux build, with this change the size of the compiled fdlibm 
> library file went down from 234,372 to 165,750 and all the math 
> library regression tests pass.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Joe
This looks good to me. I assume you've checked that it builds on other 
platforms too.

-Alan.