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From std-unix-request@uunet.uu.net Fri Sep 14 14:20:36 1990
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From: karl@IMA.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
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Subject: <math.h> in XPG3
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Date: 14 Sep 90 04:26:39 GMT
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Submitted-by: karl@IMA.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
It seems that X/Open requires the implementation to provide a log-gamma
function in the math library, using *both* names `gamma()' and `lgamma()',
with identical semantics. What on earth is the point? Why didn't they just
pick one of them as the standard name, and let the other faction convert their
code?
Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint
Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 108