Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
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-Status: March 1998
+Status: April 1998
If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
- exp2
- each with float, double, and long double arguments.
+ with long double arguments.
Beside this most of the complex math functions which are new in
ISO C 9X should be improved. Writing some of them in assembler is
int foo __P ((int, int, int, int));
Blargh!
+
+[16] The libio stream file functions should be extended in a way to use
+ mmap to map the file and use it as the buffer to user sees. For
+ read-only streams this should be rather easy and it avoids all read()
+ calls.
+
+ A more sophisticated solution would use mmap also for writing. The
+ standards do not demand that the file on the disk is always in the
+ correct form so it would be possible to enlarge it always according
+ to the page size and install the correct length only for fclose() and
+ fflush() calls.