Re: Bug#751378: ITP: openlibm -- standalone implementation of C mathematical functions
Hi Sébastien,
since you have some packages in Debian Science I think you want to
maintain the package in the team. It would be great to keep the team
CCed right in the ITP bug report.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:14:45AM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Sébastien Villemot" <sebastien@debian.org>
>
> * Package name : openlibm
> Version : 0.3
> Upstream Author : Julia development team
> * URL : https://github.com/JuliaLang/openlibm
> * License : BSD, MIT, ISC, public domain
> Programming Lang: C, asm
> Description : standalone implementation of C mathematical functions
>
>
> OpenLibm is an effort to have a high quality, portable, standalone libm
> implementation, under a liberal free software license. It can be used
> standalone in applications and programming language implementations.
>
> The project was born out of a need to have a good libm for the Julia
> programming langage that worked consistently across compilers and operating
> systems, and in 32-bit and 64-bit environments.
>
> The OpenLibm code derives from the FreeBSD msun implementation, which in turn
> derives from FDLIBM 5.3. As a result, it includes a number of fixes and updates
> to FDLIBM that have accumulated over the years in msun, and optimized versions
> of many functions.
>
> OpenLibm builds on Linux, and with little effort, should build on FreeBSD as
> well. It builds with both, GCC and clang. Although largely tested on x86, it
> also includes experimental support for ARM.
>
> OpenLibm was previously embedded within the Julia package. It has now its own
> release cycle, hence the separate Debian package (which will be maintained
> within the Debian Julia Team).
>
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