Hi Walter, On 5/19/21 11:08 PM, Radisson97@xxxxxx wrote:
From 765db7b7714514780b4e613c6d09d2ff454b1ef8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harms <wharms@xxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 22:25:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gamma.3:Add reentrant functions gamma_r Add three variants of gamma_r and explain the use of the second argument sig Signed-off-by: Harms <wharms@xxxxxx>
I just read the manual page about gamma, and those functions/macros are deprecated (use either lgamma or tgamma instead). As far as I can read, those alternative functions have all the functionality one can need, so I guess there's zero reasons to use gamma at all, which is a misleading alias for lgamma. I think I won't patch that page at all.
The glibc source code itself has a comment saying that gamma macros are obsolete:
[ #if defined __USE_MISC || (defined __USE_XOPEN && !defined __USE_XOPEN2K) # if !__MATH_DECLARING_FLOATN /* Obsolete alias for `lgamma'. */ __MATHCALL (gamma,, (_Mdouble_)); # endif #endif ] Thanks, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Senior SW Engineer; http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
