From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Conformance issues to address after 0.9.12 release
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:04:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130729210448.GG4284@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130729160046.GC25714@port70.net>
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 06:00:46PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> [2013-07-29 02:34:56 -0400]:
> > - i387 math asm does not truncate excess precision. Whether or not
> > this omission is conforming in terms of the return value, it results
> > in lost underflow exceptions, as demonstrated by nsz's math tests.
>
> the underflow problem is not i387 or excess precision related:
> many (odd) math functions are almost the identity function
> around x==0 (sin,asin,tan,atan,sinh,atanh,..)
In the case of asin, etc it _is_ the excess precision.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-29 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-29 6:34 Rich Felker
2013-07-29 16:00 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-07-29 21:04 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2013-07-30 2:26 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-08-12 19:27 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-08-13 3:32 ` Rich Felker
2013-08-13 3:45 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-08-13 4:25 ` Rich Felker
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