Hi, On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 07:41 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew John Hughes <A.Hughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Andrew> Great -- I wasn't sure how to handle ulp. BTW, do you know how we > Andrew> handle the StrictMath variants of these methods? They seem to be coded > Andrew> in Java; presumably they are translations of the fdlibm methods, as the > Andrew> same algorithms have to be used. > > Yeah, Eric Blake translated the fdlibm code into Java back when he > wrote StrictMath. I forget the rationale for this but I'm sure it is > in the archives. Eric's original design ideas (and ideas for alternate interpretations) are described in: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2002-02/msg00178.html (Read the whole thread for the whole story) Cheers, Mark -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath/attachments/20060309/e2e78116/attachment.pgp
