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

[Christos Zoulas]

On Aug 5, 10:41am, aph at redhat.com (Andrew Haley) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: JDK 8 code review request for 7075098: Remove unused fdlibm f

| 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.

We are using fdlibm too on NetBSD (FreeBSD uses it too) and we had to fix a
couple of bugs and add long double support. Perhaps we should all send our
changes back and get a new release, or if they don't want to maintain it,
we should maintain it centrally?

christos