freely distributable libm now actually freely available via ftp

[David Hough]

If the following announcement seems generally familiar, it's because a
similar one was posted a while back.   But having had endless problems with
our first choice of ftp site, we are in search of another permanent one.
Fortunately Vern Paxson quickly volunteered a temporary ftp site.    
Send comments to fdlibm-comments if it doesn't work for you:

Dr. K-C Ng has developed a new version of libm that is the basis for
the bundled /usr/lib/libm.so in Solaris 2.3 for SPARC and for future
Solaris 2 releases for x86 and PowerPC.   It provides the standard
functions necessary to pass the usual test suites.
This new libm can be configured to handle exceptions in accordance with
various language standards or in the spirit of IEEE 754.
The C source code should be portable to any IEEE 754 system with minimal
difficulties.

In the interest of elevating the minimum acceptable level of quality in
math libraries, SunPro has decided to make K-C's work freely distributable
subject only the restriction that its origin be acknowledged.   C source is
currently available at the lbl ftp site; here is an example
session:

ftp ftp.ee.lbl.gov             [Sun employees use iftp -a ftp.ee.lbl.gov]
Name ...
Password ...
ftp>
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> get fdlibm-5.1.tar.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for fdlibm-5.1.tar.Z (117889 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
local: fdlibm-5.1.tar.Z remote: fdlibm-5.1.tar.Z
117889 bytes received in 20 seconds (5.8 Kbytes/s)
ftp>bye
221 Goodbye.

Remember that anything free comes with no guarantee.  But
you may send comments and bug reports to:
                fdlibm-commentsasunpro.eng.sun.com

Note that fdlibm contains no additional functions
beyond those required by various standards;
the additional functions that used to be part of Sun libm
will be distributed in a new library libsunmath.a that will
be shipped with the unbundled SunPro compilers.