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Re: Fix ctan, ctanh overflow (bug 11521)


On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> It seems you're changing the complete file. Shouldn't the line "Contributed
> by..." get removed?

I'm not changing the code for special cases (infinities / NaNs).  But I'd 
be happy to abandon the use of "Contributed by" lines in individual source 
files altogether (stop putting them in new files, and maybe globally 
remove them from existing files at least in the FSF-copyright cases) - as 
files get modified by many people over time, and in some cases copied for 
other targets, they become less and less accurate, and the version control 
system, ChangeLogs and "Implemented by" / "Contributed by" lines in NEWS 
for new features all serve to document the original authors of features 
(for ones with implementations originating for glibc rather than copied 
from elsewhere, anyway).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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