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* libm::                        An ANSI-C conforming mathematical library.
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This file documents an ANSI-C conforming mathematical subroutine library.

Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996-2008 Red Hat, Inc. 

@file{libm} includes software developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems,
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@settitle The Red Hat newlib C Math Library
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@title The Red Hat newlib C Math Library
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@subtitle @code{libm} 1.18.0
@subtitle December 2008
@author {Steve Chamberlain}
@author {Roland Pesch}
@author {Red Hat Support}
@author {Jeff Johnston}
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Copyright @copyright{} 1992, 1993, 1994-2004 Red Hat, Inc. 

@file{libm} includes software developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems,
Inc. business.  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
software is freely granted, provided that this notice is preserved.

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, subject to the terms
of the GNU General Public License, which includes the provision that the
entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions.
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@node Top
@top LIBM
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* Math::           The mathematical functions (`math.h').
* Reentrancy::     The functions in libm are not reentrant by default.
* Long Double Functions:: The long double function support of libm.
* Index::
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@node Reentrancy
@chapter Reentrancy Properties of @code{libm}

@cindex reentrancy
@cindex @code{matherr} and reentrancy
When a libm function detects an exceptional case, @code{errno} may be
set, the @code{matherr} function may be called, and a error message 
may be written to the standard error stream.  This behavior may not
be reentrant.

@c The exact behavior depends on the currently selected error handling 
@c mode (IEEE, POSIX, X/Open, or SVID).

With reentrant C libraries like the Red Hat newlib C library, @code{errno} is
a macro which expands to the per-thread error value.  This makes it thread
safe.

When the user provides his own @code{matherr} function it must be
reentrant for the math library as a whole to be reentrant.

In normal debugged programs, there are usually no math subroutine
errors---and therefore no assignments to @code{errno} and no @code{matherr}
calls; in that situation, the math functions behave reentrantly.

@node Long Double Functions
@chapter The long double function support of @code{libm}
Currently, the full set of long double math functions is only provided
on platforms where long double equals double.
For such platforms, the long double math functions are implemented as calls to the double versions.
@node Index
@unnumbered Index
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