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Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
---------------------------------
-Status: March 1997
+Status: April 1997
If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
[ 7] Several math functions have to be written:
- exp2
- - log2
- nearbyint
- ceil
- round
@@ -138,7 +137,9 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
+ tcgetid() and waitid() from XPG4.2
+ grantpt(), ptsname(), unlockpt() from XPG4.2
+ getdate() from XPG4.2
+ *** Probably underway
+ fmtmsg() from SVID
+ *** Probably underway
More information are available on request.
@@ -147,3 +148,14 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
of text. In fact, this would be a recode-library (you know, GNU recode).
This is needed in several places in the GNU libc and I already have
rather concrete plans but so far no possibility to start this.
+
+
+[15] Cleaning up the header files. Ideally, each header style should
+ follow the "good examples". Each variable and function should have
+ a short description of the function and its parameters. The prototypes
+ should always contain variable names which can help to identify their
+ meaning; better than
+
+ int foo __P ((int, int, int, int));
+
+ Blargh!