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Re: Quad-float math library: licence question

From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
To: FX <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
Cc: Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle at verizon dot net>, Fortran List <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:02:13 -0700
Subject: Re: Quad-float math library: licence question
References: <A1C88B53-2820-4DA6-90D7-C1F403D7B0B4@gmail.com> <4C655FF1.8000408@verizon.net> <17D6A1EF-5E47-429C-A1BF-9F224EB63B68@gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:48:23PM +0200, FX wrote:
> 
> Regarding how to proceed, well... let's just say my opinion is
> that if you ask the SC to ask the FSF to ... to tell the SC to
> tell the community to ... then maybe this will make it into
> gfortran-4.9 :)

Unfortunately, I think your assessment of the above
scenario is likely correctly :(   ISTR, that someone
took (part of) glibc's libm and integrated that into
GCC, and it was not received too well.

I'll start reading your patch tonight (ie., in about
8 hours) and give you feedback.

-- 
Steve

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