diff --git a/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/crt.cmake b/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/crt.cmake
index 4d08f91998a..df09b26ba8a 100644
--- a/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/crt.cmake
+++ b/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/crt.cmake
@@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ elseif(ARCH STREQUAL "arm")
     list(APPEND CRT_SOURCE
         except/arm/ehandler.c
         math/fabsf.c
+        math/sqrt.c
         math/arm/__rt_sdiv.c
         math/arm/__rt_sdiv64_worker.c
         math/arm/__rt_udiv.c
diff --git a/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/libcntpr.cmake b/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/libcntpr.cmake
index bef8947d169..dc2c1762a34 100644
--- a/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/libcntpr.cmake
+++ b/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/libcntpr.cmake
@@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ elseif(ARCH STREQUAL "arm")
         math/arm/log.s
         math/arm/log10.s
         math/arm/pow.s
-        math/arm/sqrt.s
         math/arm/tan.s
         math/arm/__dtoi64.s
         math/arm/__dtou64.s
diff --git a/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/math/arm/sqrt.s b/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/math/arm/sqrt.s
deleted file mode 100644
index 4852306c85b..00000000000
--- a/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/math/arm/sqrt.s
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * COPYRIGHT:         BSD - See COPYING.ARM in the top level directory
- * PROJECT:           ReactOS CRT library
- * PURPOSE:           Implementation of sqrt
- * PROGRAMMER:        Timo Kreuzer (timo.kreuzer@reactos.org)
- */
-
-/* INCLUDES ******************************************************************/
-
-#include <kxarm.h>
-
-/* CODE **********************************************************************/
-
-    TEXTAREA
-
-    LEAF_ENTRY sqrt
-
-	__assertfail
-	bx	lr
-
-    LEAF_END sqrt
-
-    END
-/* EOF */
diff --git a/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/math/sqrt.c b/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/math/sqrt.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3b6334467ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reactos/lib/sdk/crt/math/sqrt.c
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/*
+ * COPYRIGHT:       BSD - See COPYING.ARM in the top level directory
+ * PROJECT:         ReactOS CRT library
+ * PURPOSE:         Portable implementation of sqrt
+ * PROGRAMMER:      Timo Kreuzer (timo.kreuzer@reactos.org)
+ */
+
+#include <math.h>
+#include <assert.h>
+
+double
+__cdecl
+sqrt(
+    double x)
+{
+    const double threehalfs = 1.5;
+    const double x2 = x * 0.5;
+    long long bits;
+    double inv, y;
+
+    /* Handle special cases */
+    if (x == 0.0)
+    {
+        return x;
+    }
+    else if (x < 0.0)
+    {
+        return -NAN;
+    }
+
+    /* Convert into a 64  bit integer */
+    bits = *(long long *)&x;
+
+    /* Check for !finite(x) */
+    if ((bits & 0x7ff7ffffffffffffLL) == 0x7ff0000000000000LL)
+    {
+        return x;
+    }
+
+    /* Step 1: quick approximation of 1/sqrt(x) with bit magic
+       See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root */
+    bits = 0x5fe6eb50c7b537a9ll - (bits >> 1);
+    inv = *(double*)&bits;
+
+    /* Step 2: 3 Newton iterations to approximate 1 / sqrt(x) */
+    inv = inv * (threehalfs - (x2 * inv * inv));
+    inv = inv * (threehalfs - (x2 * inv * inv));
+    inv = inv * (threehalfs - (x2 * inv * inv));
+
+    /* Step 3: 1 additional Heron iteration has shown to maximize the precision.
+       Normally the formula would be: y = (y + (x / y)) * 0.5;
+       Instead we use the inverse sqrt directly */
+    y = ((1 / inv) + (x * inv)) * 0.5;
+
+    //assert(y == (double)((y + (x / y)) * 0.5));
+    /* GCC BUG: While the C-Standard requires that an explicit cast to
+       double converts the result of a computation to the appropriate
+       64 bit value, our GCC ignores this and uses an 80 bit FPU register
+       in an intermediate value, so we need to make sure it is stored in
+       a memory location before comparison */
+#if DBG
+    {
+        volatile double y1 = y, y2;
+        y2 = (y + (x / y)) * 0.5;
+        assert(y1 == y2);
+    }
+#endif
+
+    return y;
+}