I will not argue that the function is deprecated. NTL i added the gamma_r function that are missing and changed the wording for the description. I think it is better than in lgamma especially for signgam. I noticed that it should be more obvious. re, wh ________________________________________ Von: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> Gesendet: Freitag, 21. Mai 2021 13:04 An: Radisson97@xxxxxx Cc: linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) Betreff: Re: WARNUNG: Diese E-Mail kam von außerhalb der Organisation. Klicken Sie nicht auf Links oder öffnen Sie keine Anhänge, es sei denn, Sie kennen den/die Absender*in und wissen, dass der Inhalt sicher ist. 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/
