[Vm-dev] [OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] Fixes for 64-bit MSVC minheadless build (#313)

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Nicolas,  thanks for the reminder.  The problem is indeed that that plugin is written w.r.t. fdlibm which is effectively obsolete.  However there is an alternative.  See first this for a good overview of the issue:
http://christian-seiler.de/projekte/fpmath/
and then this for a widely used solution:
https://www.mpfr.org
This still presents problems; we'd hav e to modify the JIT to generate analogous code to Gnu's MPFR.  But at least we have a reference implementation against which to test.
We should perhaps take this discussion to a new issue.

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