libjava configure question

Thu May 26 19:12:00 GMT 2005

Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Yes, that's probably true. We'd have to make sure that calls to
> > java::lang::Math::sin() etc. were replaced by sin() and we'd also have
> > either to remove our own definitions of the functions or make them
> > weak.
> > 
> > All quite possible, but perhaps not top of the list.
>>I just tried, and I discovered that even without any optimizations
>gcc/glibc fails dismally to meet even the relaxed java.lang.Math
>accuracy requirement for trig functions. We should keep our own math
>library, because it's better.
>
Hmm, thats quite surprising. Are you sure this was using the real math 
library functions and not substituting FPU instructions? Do you have 
some test case that checks for conformance?
Bryce
Bryce