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| -rw-r--r-- | PROJECTS | 15 |
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diff --git a/PROJECTS b/PROJECTS index b9bd305cb9..f1488d3e62 100644 --- a/PROJECTS +++ b/PROJECTS @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Open jobs for finishing GNU libc: --------------------------------- -Status: March 1998 +Status: April 1998 If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. - exp2 - each with float, double, and long double arguments. + with long double arguments. Beside this most of the complex math functions which are new in ISO C 9X should be improved. Writing some of them in assembler is @@ -101,3 +101,14 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. int foo __P ((int, int, int, int)); Blargh! + +[16] The libio stream file functions should be extended in a way to use + mmap to map the file and use it as the buffer to user sees. For + read-only streams this should be rather easy and it avoids all read() + calls. + + A more sophisticated solution would use mmap also for writing. The + standards do not demand that the file on the disk is always in the + correct form so it would be possible to enlarge it always according + to the page size and install the correct length only for fclose() and + fflush() calls. |