[Fwd: [PATCH] PR21915, Add acosh, asinh, and atanh to intrinsics]

[Steve Kargl]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 06:34:16PM -0600, Roger Sayle wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > Actually, Jerry asked about putting these functions into
> > c99_functions.c.  I asked him to leave them in hyper.c
> > because c99_functions.c is intended for implementing C99
> > functions that aren't present in libm (or libc).  For example,
> > atanh[f], asinh[f], and acosh[f] pre-dates C99 by several years.
> > OTOH, the long double versions [for example atanhl()] first
> > appeared in C99 and many OS's may not have a atanhl() (for
> > example FreeBSD).  An implementation f atanhl() should be placed
> > in c99_functions.c.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation, though I still believe this distinction is
> particularly odd (or atleast counter intuitive), given that sqrtf that
> *is* in c99_functions.c also significantly predates C99.

libgfortran could use some clean up.

> My interpretation (as a significant contributor to c99_functions.c :)
> was that c99_functions.c was supposed to implement run-time support for
> targets that don't provide a full C99 run-time.  It's not as relevent
> when these functions were first used/introduced, just that they are
> expected to all be present in recent libc/libm implementations.

I guess I should note that my description is the way I think
about c99_functions.c.  I don't think it is a firm, written
in stone rule.

> > Also, note hyper.c is similar to bessel.c.
> 
> Indeed.  If the libgfortran maintainers prefer these stub implementations
> to be placed in many small source files, I can understand and abide by
> that.  The libstdc++-v3 maintainers, on the other hand, prefer to keep
> their equivalent implementations in a single libstdc++-v3/libmath/stubs.c.
> 
> I stand corrected.  Sorry for the noise.

It's not noise.  It's discussion.  If Paul Brook, who I will defer,
wants to move things into c99_functions.c, I certainly won't object.
We have 

kargl[209] wc -l c99_functions.c hyper.c bessel.c erf.c
     411 c99_functions.c
      56 hyper.c
      81 bessel.c
      48 erf.c
     596 total

A 600 line file is a reasonable size.

-- 
Steve