Re: Offer to help with TR1 Math

[Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>]

Hey Curt and Ed! It's great to see some activity on this again.

Curt, you might want to take care of some of the preliminaries located here:

(See "Contributor-Specific Information"
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/documentation.html

> > Browsing the mailing lists I can see from these posts that these
> > features are actively being worked on:
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2006-03/msg00065.html
> >   
> After a long hiatus I started looking at this again this week.  I just 
> merged with mainline (no problems) and I'll start bootstrapping tomorrow.

Great. I would encourage you to post what you have, and then you and
Curt can figure out who should work on what.

> The whole thing needs to be worked over for sanity and naming and 
> commentary.
> 
> Plus putting these functions through real use would really help.

Yep.

> Anyhoo, help would be most welcome!  This material is, as one of my 
> professors said, is "cut but not dried".  I guess that goes some way 
> towards explaining why the C++ committee decided not to move these 
> functions into the main C++ draft.
> 
> *sniff*
> 
> Anyway, maybe with another implementation the balance of power will 
> shift . . .

It would certainly help convince me. The objections stated in Berlin
included issues with hardware requirements for decent test times, the
implementation difficulties, and the uncertainty surrounding general
applicability. 

-benjamin