it's unclear whether compilers which provide pure imaginary types
might produce a pure imaginary expression for 1.0fi. using 0.0f+1.0fi
ensures that the result is explicitly complex and makes this obvious
to human readers too.
based on patches by Jens Gustedt. these macros need to be usable in
static initializers, and the old definitions were not.
there is no portable way to provide correct definitions for these
macros unless the compiler supports pure imaginary types. a portable
definition is provided for this case even though there are presently
no compilers that can use it. gcc and compatible compilers provide a
builtin function that can be used, but clang fails to support this and
instead requires a construct which is a constraint violation and which
is only a constant expression as a clang-specific extension.
since these macros are a namespace violation in pre-C11 profiles, and
since no known pre-C11 compilers provide any way to define them
correctly anyway, the definitions have been made conditional on C11.
C++ programmers typically expect something like "::function(x,y)" to work
and may be surprised to find that "(::function)(x,y)" is actually required
due to the headers declaring a macro version of some standard functions.
We already omit function-like macros for C++ in most cases where there is
a real function available. This commit extends this to the remaining
function-like macros which have a real function version.
thanks to the hard work of Szabolcs Nagy (nsz), identifying the best
(from correctness and license standpoint) implementations from freebsd
and openbsd and cleaning them up! musl should now fully support c99
float and long double math functions, and has near-complete complex
math support. tgmath should also work (fully on gcc-compatible
compilers, and mostly on any c99 compiler).
based largely on commit 0376d44a890fea261506f1fc63833e7a686dca19 from
nsz's libm git repo, with some additions (dummy versions of a few
missing long double complex functions, etc.) by me.
various cleanups still need to be made, including re-adding (if
they're correct) some asm functions that were dropped.
Rich Felker
Bobby Bingham
Szabolcs Nagy