[Bug c/14621] libm tan failure for pi/2 argument

["gerald dot evenden at verizon dot net" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From gerald dot evenden at verizon dot net  2004-03-18 14:36 -------
I was going to let you folks have the last word as any further dialog was worthless
however your comments on C99 and Harbison & Steele were so erroneous I was forced
to respond.

First, you did not read my last email where I said the tan spec's date back to at least
the mid 1980's to how can this be a matter of C99?  I never mentioned C99,

Secondly, Harbison & Steele is just about the only reliable indendent source of standards
available at a reasonable cost.  When ANSI was the source I did get their standards many
years ago but later it became too expensive.  What is and isn't C99 is clearly noted in the
book, but then you have obviously never read it.

Thirdly, your last note indicates overwhelming position of self importance and the basic
statement "my way or no way."  As an aside, from what I have read of the C99 standards
they seem reasonable and should be implemented.  Your web site shows you are a little
slow to keep up.

Lastly, please no more prattle about realities of floating point and value exactitude.
I have been writting mathematical software since 1959 and I have a certain degree of
familiarity with the technicalities of floating point arithmetic.

Lastly, you said I should contact the group involved with the "libc" library.  Well, for
one thing tan is in libm and secondly I cannot find the place in your web site (nor
any other) that deals with either libc or libm problems.

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