core.math and std.math

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 00:37:39 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 00:16:05 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> Why does core.math exist? It's basically empty, but with a 
>> couple of select functions which seem arbitrarily chosen...
>
> Isn't core.math compiler intrinsics? The corresponding 
> functions in std.math call the core.math versions.

They are. I'm in the process of adding a bunch of overloads to 
core math so that we can stop using `real` unnecessarily (if 
anyone with a 32-bit machine can build dmd with pr 8002  and run 
the `std.bitmanip` unit tests and tell me why it crashes that 
would be much appreciated).