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Re: clang support flagging



On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 12:58:09AM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> Bringing locales and 80-bit floating point to NetBSD seems to be a
> matter of porting.  FreeBSD has both, and cephes has most of the C99
> math.  

The second part is not true. FreeBSD does not have complete long double
support, they just cheat by aliasing most to the double version. I also
don't agree that long double support is that support, given the
significant performance penalty on modern x86 cpus.

Joerg


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