R-alpha: Re: pow_dd & pow_di [was f2clib.c etc..] -- yes, please !

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Kurt" == Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

>>>>> Thomas Lumley writes:
    >> On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Kurt Hornik wrote:
    >>> Thomas,
    >>> 
    >>> Could you add the "-lf2c" at the end of the line @$(LD)
    >>> $(SHLIBLDFLAGS) -o $(LIBNAME).so $(OBJS) in acepack's
    >>> src-c/Makefile?
    >>> 
    >>> I ran across an identical pow_dd problem recently with another
    >>> package.  Did we always need the "-lf2c", or is this a feature of
    >>> the new version?
    >>> 

    >> This is very strange.  My copy works ok as is, in all the versions
    >> of R I have installed (including 0.50a1). On the other hand, using
    >> nm reveals that R0.50 has replaced pow_dd and pow_di by f77_pow_dd
    >> and f77_pow_di respectively.  It looks like the builtin subset of
    >> libf2c has vanished.  This is a problem, as we should not require
    >> people to have f2c in order to run the C version of the library --
    >> after all, if they had f2c they could run the FORTRAN version.
yep
    Kurt> You're right, see also one of my previous mails.  They now have
    Kurt> POW_DD and f77_pow_dd (where does this come from, anyway).  I
    Kurt> think that in the ``old days'' we were lucky that everything was
    Kurt> based on C, so FORTRAN was converted using f2c and compatibility
    Kurt> functions were provided by the distribution proper.  Of course,
    Kurt> in general one cannot expect that ALL functions needed after
    Kurt> using f2c would be in a compatibility library, unless it was
    Kurt> identical to libf2c ...

    Kurt> But clearly, pow_dd and pow_di should exist again ...

Even more: I think it's just these two which should 
	'officially' part of the R binary, i.e., their sourc should be in
	src/main/  or src/math/  rather than in appl  or somewhere.

I think there are several instances in the current  R source tree, where
the code could be improved by using  pow_d{d|i}(..).

-- Martin
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