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

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 13:09 Thu 04 Aug     , Joe Darcy wrote:
> 
> The JDK makefiles specially compile the FDLIBM sources under lower 
> optimization levels to try to avoid such problems.  Over the years, we 
> have had our share of C compiler bugs tripping up FDLIBM, which have 
> been caught by our testing.  One of my long-term goals is to finish the 
> small matter of programming [2] to port FDLIBM from C to Java, which 
> would immunize the JDK from this class of problem.
> 

FWIW, GNU Classpath used Java versions of the StrictMath methods, though
it's now out of sync with the ones added in 1.6.

> Thanks for the review,
> 
> -Joe
> 
> [1] http://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/finding_a_bug_in_fdlibm
> 
> [2] A piece of the SMOP:
> 6908131: Pure Java implementations of StrictMath.floor(double) & 
> StrictMath.ceil(double)
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/jdk/rev/ad1e30930c6c
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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