[RFC] libm replacement for Busybox
Loïc Grenié
loic.grenie at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 12:52:24 UTC 2008
2008/10/21 Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>:
> On Monday 20 October 2008 10:56:22 am Loïc Grenié wrote:
> It's more like I did not fully understand your use case.
> You want to be able to not bloat busybox
> with standard libm (indeed, ~9k on 32bit x86).
My use case is with gnu libm which is much larger
> You proposed some replacement, "small libm". I read that people
> found it not precise enough (I did not test it).
Indeed.
> I found out that there is other method to not bloat busybox -
> just switch off parts which require libm.
That's fine.
> What I do not know, and therefore ask you, is this an acceptable
> solution for this use case? Is your use case require pow and exp
> functions in awk and dc?
Not changing anything is perfectly fine with me. I will statically
link libm and that's ok for me.
Thanks,
Loïc
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