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

[Andrew Haley]

On 08/04/2011 09:09 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:

> Mike Duigou wrote:
>> Looks good to me. 
>>
>> I did wonder if we have a policy for tracking fdlibm updates. 
> 
> To a first approximation (and even a second approximation), fdlibm 
> doesn't have updates any more any hasn't for many years.  The changes in 
> in 5.3 were to fix a few bugs I and others had discovered circa 2004. [1]

That's right.  We used fdlibm in libgcj too, and it is very solid and reliable
code.  The only problems we ever had were some non-portable assumptions that
were fairly easy to fix.  Maybe fdlibm will never now be updated.

Andrew.