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R-devel on FreeBSD: new C99 functions don't build

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin at gwdg.de> wrote:
AFAIK, Bruce Evans is not happy with the numerical accuracy of other
open-source implementations of log1pl and so has blocked their
inclusion in FreeBSD pending work on a better implementation.

Can you put a conditional FreeBSD check here and use log1p instead of
log1pl instead as a workaround?

I can admire the insistence on correctness from the FreeBSD libm
maintainers for their technical purity, but it can be a bit of a pain
for things like this.

         - Murray