Re: release candidate 3 available--Solaris 5.9 issue

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> We only use one function from that library, namely a routine to convert
> a number to base 30.   It occured to me that this is a reasonably
> straightforward algorithm. So could we not implement our own, and then 
> drop the dependence on libgmp ?
>
> Or am I being naive?

That is, ideally, what I'd like to do.  Floating-point
base conversions are not really my bag.  I do, however, have a
copy of Plauger's _The Standard C Library_ that does a good job
of explaining the issues.  I'll read it over again this afternoon
and see how hard it would be.
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