diff --git a/liba/Makefile b/liba/Makefile
index 997c765ca..60a339563 100644
--- a/liba/Makefile
+++ b/liba/Makefile
@@ -2,13 +2,18 @@ SFLAGS += -Iliba/include
 
 liba/src/external/sqlite/mem5.o: CFLAGS += -w
 
-objs += $(addprefix liba/src/, assert.o errno.o malloc.o memcpy.o memset.o powf.o strcmp.o strlcpy.o strlen.o external/sqlite/mem5.o)
+objs += $(addprefix liba/src/, assert.o errno.o malloc.o memcpy.o memset.o strcmp.o strlcpy.o strlen.o external/sqlite/mem5.o)
 
 objs += $(addprefix liba/src/external/msun/, \
   e_log10f.o \
+  e_powf.o \
+  e_sqrtf.o \
+  s_copysignf.o \
+  s_fabsf.o \
+  s_scalbnf.o \
 )
 
-liba/src/external/msun/%.o: CFLAGS += -Iliba/src/external/msun/include
+liba/src/external/msun/%.o: CFLAGS += -Iliba/src/external/msun/include -Dlint=1 -Wno-parentheses
 liba/src/external/msun/%.o: SFLAGS:=$(filter-out -DDEBUG=1,$(SFLAGS))
 
 tests += $(addprefix liba/test/, stdint.c strlcpy.c)
diff --git a/liba/include/math.h b/liba/include/math.h
index 19dc99ca5..41271f1ff 100644
--- a/liba/include/math.h
+++ b/liba/include/math.h
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ LIBA_BEGIN_DECLS
 
 float log10f(float x);
 float powf(float x, float y);
+float fabsf(float x);
+float sqrtf(float x);
+float scalbnf(float x, int n);
+float copysignf(float x, float y);
 
 LIBA_END_DECLS
 
diff --git a/liba/src/external/msun/e_powf.c b/liba/src/external/msun/e_powf.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5c4647887
--- /dev/null
+++ b/liba/src/external/msun/e_powf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
+/* e_powf.c -- float version of e_pow.c.
+ * Conversion to float by Ian Lance Taylor, Cygnus Support, ian@cygnus.com.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * ====================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
+ * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
+ * software is freely granted, provided that this notice
+ * is preserved.
+ * ====================================================
+ */
+
+#include <sys/cdefs.h>
+__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
+
+#include "math.h"
+#include "math_private.h"
+
+static const float
+bp[] = {1.0, 1.5,},
+dp_h[] = { 0.0, 5.84960938e-01,}, /* 0x3f15c000 */
+dp_l[] = { 0.0, 1.56322085e-06,}, /* 0x35d1cfdc */
+zero    =  0.0,
+one	=  1.0,
+two	=  2.0,
+two24	=  16777216.0,	/* 0x4b800000 */
+huge	=  1.0e30,
+tiny    =  1.0e-30,
+	/* poly coefs for (3/2)*(log(x)-2s-2/3*s**3 */
+L1  =  6.0000002384e-01, /* 0x3f19999a */
+L2  =  4.2857143283e-01, /* 0x3edb6db7 */
+L3  =  3.3333334327e-01, /* 0x3eaaaaab */
+L4  =  2.7272811532e-01, /* 0x3e8ba305 */
+L5  =  2.3066075146e-01, /* 0x3e6c3255 */
+L6  =  2.0697501302e-01, /* 0x3e53f142 */
+P1   =  1.6666667163e-01, /* 0x3e2aaaab */
+P2   = -2.7777778450e-03, /* 0xbb360b61 */
+P3   =  6.6137559770e-05, /* 0x388ab355 */
+P4   = -1.6533901999e-06, /* 0xb5ddea0e */
+P5   =  4.1381369442e-08, /* 0x3331bb4c */
+lg2  =  6.9314718246e-01, /* 0x3f317218 */
+lg2_h  =  6.93145752e-01, /* 0x3f317200 */
+lg2_l  =  1.42860654e-06, /* 0x35bfbe8c */
+ovt =  4.2995665694e-08, /* -(128-log2(ovfl+.5ulp)) */
+cp    =  9.6179670095e-01, /* 0x3f76384f =2/(3ln2) */
+cp_h  =  9.6191406250e-01, /* 0x3f764000 =12b cp */
+cp_l  = -1.1736857402e-04, /* 0xb8f623c6 =tail of cp_h */
+ivln2    =  1.4426950216e+00, /* 0x3fb8aa3b =1/ln2 */
+ivln2_h  =  1.4426879883e+00, /* 0x3fb8aa00 =16b 1/ln2*/
+ivln2_l  =  7.0526075433e-06; /* 0x36eca570 =1/ln2 tail*/
+
+float
+__ieee754_powf(float x, float y)
+{
+	float z,ax,z_h,z_l,p_h,p_l;
+	float y1,t1,t2,r,s,sn,t,u,v,w;
+	int32_t i,j,k,yisint,n;
+	int32_t hx,hy,ix,iy,is;
+
+	GET_FLOAT_WORD(hx,x);
+	GET_FLOAT_WORD(hy,y);
+	ix = hx&0x7fffffff;  iy = hy&0x7fffffff;
+
+    /* y==zero: x**0 = 1 */
+	if(iy==0) return one;
+
+    /* x==1: 1**y = 1, even if y is NaN */
+	if (hx==0x3f800000) return one;
+
+    /* y!=zero: result is NaN if either arg is NaN */
+	if(ix > 0x7f800000 ||
+	   iy > 0x7f800000)
+		return (x+0.0F)+(y+0.0F);
+
+    /* determine if y is an odd int when x < 0
+     * yisint = 0	... y is not an integer
+     * yisint = 1	... y is an odd int
+     * yisint = 2	... y is an even int
+     */
+	yisint  = 0;
+	if(hx<0) {
+	    if(iy>=0x4b800000) yisint = 2; /* even integer y */
+	    else if(iy>=0x3f800000) {
+		k = (iy>>23)-0x7f;	   /* exponent */
+		j = iy>>(23-k);
+		if((j<<(23-k))==iy) yisint = 2-(j&1);
+	    }
+	}
+
+    /* special value of y */
+	if (iy==0x7f800000) {	/* y is +-inf */
+	    if (ix==0x3f800000)
+	        return  one;	/* (-1)**+-inf is NaN */
+	    else if (ix > 0x3f800000)/* (|x|>1)**+-inf = inf,0 */
+	        return (hy>=0)? y: zero;
+	    else			/* (|x|<1)**-,+inf = inf,0 */
+	        return (hy<0)?-y: zero;
+	}
+	if(iy==0x3f800000) {	/* y is  +-1 */
+	    if(hy<0) return one/x; else return x;
+	}
+	if(hy==0x40000000) return x*x; /* y is  2 */
+	if(hy==0x3f000000) {	/* y is  0.5 */
+	    if(hx>=0)	/* x >= +0 */
+	    return __ieee754_sqrtf(x);
+	}
+
+	ax   = fabsf(x);
+    /* special value of x */
+	if(ix==0x7f800000||ix==0||ix==0x3f800000){
+	    z = ax;			/*x is +-0,+-inf,+-1*/
+	    if(hy<0) z = one/z;	/* z = (1/|x|) */
+	    if(hx<0) {
+		if(((ix-0x3f800000)|yisint)==0) {
+		    z = (z-z)/(z-z); /* (-1)**non-int is NaN */
+		} else if(yisint==1)
+		    z = -z;		/* (x<0)**odd = -(|x|**odd) */
+	    }
+	    return z;
+	}
+
+	n = ((u_int32_t)hx>>31)-1;
+
+    /* (x<0)**(non-int) is NaN */
+	if((n|yisint)==0) return (x-x)/(x-x);
+
+	sn = one; /* s (sign of result -ve**odd) = -1 else = 1 */
+	if((n|(yisint-1))==0) sn = -one;/* (-ve)**(odd int) */
+
+    /* |y| is huge */
+	if(iy>0x4d000000) { /* if |y| > 2**27 */
+	/* over/underflow if x is not close to one */
+	    if(ix<0x3f7ffff8) return (hy<0)? sn*huge*huge:sn*tiny*tiny;
+	    if(ix>0x3f800007) return (hy>0)? sn*huge*huge:sn*tiny*tiny;
+	/* now |1-x| is tiny <= 2**-20, suffice to compute
+	   log(x) by x-x^2/2+x^3/3-x^4/4 */
+	    t = ax-1;		/* t has 20 trailing zeros */
+	    w = (t*t)*((float)0.5-t*((float)0.333333333333-t*(float)0.25));
+	    u = ivln2_h*t;	/* ivln2_h has 16 sig. bits */
+	    v = t*ivln2_l-w*ivln2;
+	    t1 = u+v;
+	    GET_FLOAT_WORD(is,t1);
+	    SET_FLOAT_WORD(t1,is&0xfffff000);
+	    t2 = v-(t1-u);
+	} else {
+	    float s2,s_h,s_l,t_h,t_l;
+	    n = 0;
+	/* take care subnormal number */
+	    if(ix<0x00800000)
+		{ax *= two24; n -= 24; GET_FLOAT_WORD(ix,ax); }
+	    n  += ((ix)>>23)-0x7f;
+	    j  = ix&0x007fffff;
+	/* determine interval */
+	    ix = j|0x3f800000;		/* normalize ix */
+	    if(j<=0x1cc471) k=0;	/* |x|<sqrt(3/2) */
+	    else if(j<0x5db3d7) k=1;	/* |x|<sqrt(3)   */
+	    else {k=0;n+=1;ix -= 0x00800000;}
+	    SET_FLOAT_WORD(ax,ix);
+
+	/* compute s = s_h+s_l = (x-1)/(x+1) or (x-1.5)/(x+1.5) */
+	    u = ax-bp[k];		/* bp[0]=1.0, bp[1]=1.5 */
+	    v = one/(ax+bp[k]);
+	    s = u*v;
+	    s_h = s;
+	    GET_FLOAT_WORD(is,s_h);
+	    SET_FLOAT_WORD(s_h,is&0xfffff000);
+	/* t_h=ax+bp[k] High */
+	    is = ((ix>>1)&0xfffff000)|0x20000000;
+	    SET_FLOAT_WORD(t_h,is+0x00400000+(k<<21));
+	    t_l = ax - (t_h-bp[k]);
+	    s_l = v*((u-s_h*t_h)-s_h*t_l);
+	/* compute log(ax) */
+	    s2 = s*s;
+	    r = s2*s2*(L1+s2*(L2+s2*(L3+s2*(L4+s2*(L5+s2*L6)))));
+	    r += s_l*(s_h+s);
+	    s2  = s_h*s_h;
+	    t_h = (float)3.0+s2+r;
+	    GET_FLOAT_WORD(is,t_h);
+	    SET_FLOAT_WORD(t_h,is&0xfffff000);
+	    t_l = r-((t_h-(float)3.0)-s2);
+	/* u+v = s*(1+...) */
+	    u = s_h*t_h;
+	    v = s_l*t_h+t_l*s;
+	/* 2/(3log2)*(s+...) */
+	    p_h = u+v;
+	    GET_FLOAT_WORD(is,p_h);
+	    SET_FLOAT_WORD(p_h,is&0xfffff000);
+	    p_l = v-(p_h-u);
+	    z_h = cp_h*p_h;		/* cp_h+cp_l = 2/(3*log2) */
+	    z_l = cp_l*p_h+p_l*cp+dp_l[k];
+	/* log2(ax) = (s+..)*2/(3*log2) = n + dp_h + z_h + z_l */
+	    t = (float)n;
+	    t1 = (((z_h+z_l)+dp_h[k])+t);
+	    GET_FLOAT_WORD(is,t1);
+	    SET_FLOAT_WORD(t1,is&0xfffff000);
+	    t2 = z_l-(((t1-t)-dp_h[k])-z_h);
+	}
+
+    /* split up y into y1+y2 and compute (y1+y2)*(t1+t2) */
+	GET_FLOAT_WORD(is,y);
+	SET_FLOAT_WORD(y1,is&0xfffff000);
+	p_l = (y-y1)*t1+y*t2;
+	p_h = y1*t1;
+	z = p_l+p_h;
+	GET_FLOAT_WORD(j,z);
+	if (j>0x43000000)				/* if z > 128 */
+	    return sn*huge*huge;			/* overflow */
+	else if (j==0x43000000) {			/* if z == 128 */
+	    if(p_l+ovt>z-p_h) return sn*huge*huge;	/* overflow */
+	}
+	else if ((j&0x7fffffff)>0x43160000)		/* z <= -150 */
+	    return sn*tiny*tiny;			/* underflow */
+	else if (j==0xc3160000){			/* z == -150 */
+	    if(p_l<=z-p_h) return sn*tiny*tiny;		/* underflow */
+	}
+    /*
+     * compute 2**(p_h+p_l)
+     */
+	i = j&0x7fffffff;
+	k = (i>>23)-0x7f;
+	n = 0;
+	if(i>0x3f000000) {		/* if |z| > 0.5, set n = [z+0.5] */
+	    n = j+(0x00800000>>(k+1));
+	    k = ((n&0x7fffffff)>>23)-0x7f;	/* new k for n */
+	    SET_FLOAT_WORD(t,n&~(0x007fffff>>k));
+	    n = ((n&0x007fffff)|0x00800000)>>(23-k);
+	    if(j<0) n = -n;
+	    p_h -= t;
+	}
+	t = p_l+p_h;
+	GET_FLOAT_WORD(is,t);
+	SET_FLOAT_WORD(t,is&0xffff8000);
+	u = t*lg2_h;
+	v = (p_l-(t-p_h))*lg2+t*lg2_l;
+	z = u+v;
+	w = v-(z-u);
+	t  = z*z;
+	t1  = z - t*(P1+t*(P2+t*(P3+t*(P4+t*P5))));
+	r  = (z*t1)/(t1-two)-(w+z*w);
+	z  = one-(r-z);
+	GET_FLOAT_WORD(j,z);
+	j += (n<<23);
+	if((j>>23)<=0) z = scalbnf(z,n);	/* subnormal output */
+	else SET_FLOAT_WORD(z,j);
+	return sn*z;
+}
diff --git a/liba/src/external/msun/e_sqrtf.c b/liba/src/external/msun/e_sqrtf.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7eba4d07f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/liba/src/external/msun/e_sqrtf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/* e_sqrtf.c -- float version of e_sqrt.c.
+ * Conversion to float by Ian Lance Taylor, Cygnus Support, ian@cygnus.com.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * ====================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
+ * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
+ * software is freely granted, provided that this notice
+ * is preserved.
+ * ====================================================
+ */
+
+#ifndef lint
+static char rcsid[] = "$FreeBSD$";
+#endif
+
+#include "math.h"
+#include "math_private.h"
+
+static	const float	one	= 1.0, tiny=1.0e-30;
+
+float
+__ieee754_sqrtf(float x)
+{
+	float z;
+	int32_t sign = (int)0x80000000;
+	int32_t ix,s,q,m,t,i;
+	u_int32_t r;
+
+	GET_FLOAT_WORD(ix,x);
+
+    /* take care of Inf and NaN */
+	if((ix&0x7f800000)==0x7f800000) {
+	    return x*x+x;		/* sqrt(NaN)=NaN, sqrt(+inf)=+inf
+					   sqrt(-inf)=sNaN */
+	}
+    /* take care of zero */
+	if(ix<=0) {
+	    if((ix&(~sign))==0) return x;/* sqrt(+-0) = +-0 */
+	    else if(ix<0)
+		return (x-x)/(x-x);		/* sqrt(-ve) = sNaN */
+	}
+    /* normalize x */
+	m = (ix>>23);
+	if(m==0) {				/* subnormal x */
+	    for(i=0;(ix&0x00800000)==0;i++) ix<<=1;
+	    m -= i-1;
+	}
+	m -= 127;	/* unbias exponent */
+	ix = (ix&0x007fffff)|0x00800000;
+	if(m&1)	/* odd m, double x to make it even */
+	    ix += ix;
+	m >>= 1;	/* m = [m/2] */
+
+    /* generate sqrt(x) bit by bit */
+	ix += ix;
+	q = s = 0;		/* q = sqrt(x) */
+	r = 0x01000000;		/* r = moving bit from right to left */
+
+	while(r!=0) {
+	    t = s+r;
+	    if(t<=ix) {
+		s    = t+r;
+		ix  -= t;
+		q   += r;
+	    }
+	    ix += ix;
+	    r>>=1;
+	}
+
+    /* use floating add to find out rounding direction */
+	if(ix!=0) {
+	    z = one-tiny; /* trigger inexact flag */
+	    if (z>=one) {
+	        z = one+tiny;
+		if (z>one)
+		    q += 2;
+		else
+		    q += (q&1);
+	    }
+	}
+	ix = (q>>1)+0x3f000000;
+	ix += (m <<23);
+	SET_FLOAT_WORD(z,ix);
+	return z;
+}
diff --git a/liba/src/external/msun/include/sys/cdefs.h b/liba/src/external/msun/include/sys/cdefs.h
index 1f97e0dc9..37bb34d68 100644
--- a/liba/src/external/msun/include/sys/cdefs.h
+++ b/liba/src/external/msun/include/sys/cdefs.h
@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@
 // This file permits standalone compilation of FreeBSD's msun
 #define __FBSDID(x)
 
+#define __strong_reference(x,y)
+
 #endif
diff --git a/liba/src/external/msun/s_copysignf.c b/liba/src/external/msun/s_copysignf.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..05ca1e368
--- /dev/null
+++ b/liba/src/external/msun/s_copysignf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/* s_copysignf.c -- float version of s_copysign.c.
+ * Conversion to float by Ian Lance Taylor, Cygnus Support, ian@cygnus.com.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * ====================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
+ * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
+ * software is freely granted, provided that this notice
+ * is preserved.
+ * ====================================================
+ */
+
+#include <sys/cdefs.h>
+__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
+
+/*
+ * copysignf(float x, float y)
+ * copysignf(x,y) returns a value with the magnitude of x and
+ * with the sign bit of y.
+ */
+
+#include "math.h"
+#include "math_private.h"
+
+float
+copysignf(float x, float y)
+{
+	u_int32_t ix,iy;
+	GET_FLOAT_WORD(ix,x);
+	GET_FLOAT_WORD(iy,y);
+	SET_FLOAT_WORD(x,(ix&0x7fffffff)|(iy&0x80000000));
+        return x;
+}
diff --git a/liba/src/external/msun/s_fabsf.c b/liba/src/external/msun/s_fabsf.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e9383d0db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/liba/src/external/msun/s_fabsf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/* s_fabsf.c -- float version of s_fabs.c.
+ * Conversion to float by Ian Lance Taylor, Cygnus Support, ian@cygnus.com.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * ====================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
+ * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
+ * software is freely granted, provided that this notice
+ * is preserved.
+ * ====================================================
+ */
+
+#include <sys/cdefs.h>
+__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
+
+/*
+ * fabsf(x) returns the absolute value of x.
+ */
+
+#include "math.h"
+#include "math_private.h"
+
+float
+fabsf(float x)
+{
+	u_int32_t ix;
+	GET_FLOAT_WORD(ix,x);
+	SET_FLOAT_WORD(x,ix&0x7fffffff);
+        return x;
+}
diff --git a/liba/src/external/msun/s_scalbnf.c b/liba/src/external/msun/s_scalbnf.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7666c74ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/liba/src/external/msun/s_scalbnf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/* s_scalbnf.c -- float version of s_scalbn.c.
+ * Conversion to float by Ian Lance Taylor, Cygnus Support, ian@cygnus.com.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * ====================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
+ * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
+ * software is freely granted, provided that this notice
+ * is preserved.
+ * ====================================================
+ */
+
+#ifndef lint
+static char rcsid[] = "$FreeBSD$";
+#endif
+
+#include <sys/cdefs.h>
+
+#include "math.h"
+#include "math_private.h"
+
+static const float
+two25   =  3.355443200e+07,	/* 0x4c000000 */
+twom25  =  2.9802322388e-08,	/* 0x33000000 */
+huge   = 1.0e+30,
+tiny   = 1.0e-30;
+
+float
+scalbnf (float x, int n)
+{
+	int32_t k,ix;
+	GET_FLOAT_WORD(ix,x);
+        k = (ix&0x7f800000)>>23;		/* extract exponent */
+        if (k==0) {				/* 0 or subnormal x */
+            if ((ix&0x7fffffff)==0) return x; /* +-0 */
+	    x *= two25;
+	    GET_FLOAT_WORD(ix,x);
+	    k = ((ix&0x7f800000)>>23) - 25;
+            if (n< -50000) return tiny*x; 	/*underflow*/
+	    }
+        if (k==0xff) return x+x;		/* NaN or Inf */
+        k = k+n;
+        if (k >  0xfe) return huge*copysignf(huge,x); /* overflow  */
+        if (k > 0) 				/* normal result */
+	    {SET_FLOAT_WORD(x,(ix&0x807fffff)|(k<<23)); return x;}
+        if (k <= -25)
+            if (n > 50000) 	/* in case integer overflow in n+k */
+		return huge*copysignf(huge,x);	/*overflow*/
+	    else return tiny*copysignf(tiny,x);	/*underflow*/
+        k += 25;				/* subnormal result */
+	SET_FLOAT_WORD(x,(ix&0x807fffff)|(k<<23));
+        return x*twom25;
+}
+
+__strong_reference(scalbnf, ldexpf);
diff --git a/liba/src/powf.c b/liba/src/powf.c
deleted file mode 100644
index b3b235fe9..000000000
--- a/liba/src/powf.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-float powf(float x, float y) {
-  return 1.0f; // TODO: do this for real
-}