[ast-users] C99 |scanbl| vs. |scalbl| / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh alpha source 2006-10-31 update

[Glenn Fowler]

a typo
should be

f 2 scalb
f 2 scalbn

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:55:01 +0100 Roland Mainz wrote:
> Glenn Fowler wrote:
> After taking a closer look at the ast-ksh build log I saw this:
> -- snip --
> iffe: test: is scanb a library function ... no
> iffe: test: is scanbl a library function ... no
> iffe: test: is scanbn a library function ... no
> iffe: test: is scanbnl a library function ... no
> -- snip --

> Shouldn't this be |scalb*| instead of |scanb*| ? Solaris doen't have a
> |scanbl| function (or similar stuff):
> -- snip --
> $ apropos scanb
> $ apropos scanbl
> $ apropos scanbn
> $ apropos scanbnl
> -- snip --

> ... but lots of |scalb*| functions...
> -- snip --
> $ apropos scalbnl
> scalbnl         scalbln (3m)    - compute exponent using FLT_RADIX
> $ apropos scalbl 
> scalbl          scalb (3m)      - load exponent of a radix-independent
> floating-point number
> scalbln         scalbln (3m)    - compute exponent using FLT_RADIX
> scalblnf        scalbln (3m)    - compute exponent using FLT_RADIX
> scalblnl        scalbln (3m)    - compute exponent using FLT_RADIX
> scalbn          scalbln (3m)    - compute exponent using FLT_RADIX
> scalbnf         scalbln (3m)    - compute exponent using FLT_RADIX
> scalbnl         scalbln (3m)    - compute exponent using FLT_RADIX
> -- snip --