Re: printf issues

[Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>]

Another printf issue has shown up, this time with memory corruption.

    printf ("%.3E\n", 999999999.0);

The rounding test correctly decides that it needs to round this value
up to 1E+09.  It is, however, utterly unprepared for having nowhere to
put the carry.  It happily accesses and changes one or more elements
before the one that held 999999999.

Morten




On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> wrote:
> In fmt_fmt, the rounding decision is done using this test:
>
>             /* Decide whether to round by probing round+small */
>             if (round+small != round) { ...
>
> Why is this done with long double?
>
> The reason I ask is that the Valgrind situation improves a lot if
> this is done with doubles.
>
> (Valgrind situation: Valgrind emulates long doubles, poorly, by using
> simple doubles.  See, for example, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164298)
>
> Morten
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net> wrote:
>> * Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> [2014-04-04 13:42:30 -0400]:
>>> It looks like the LDBL_EPSILON version could be used in
>>>
>>>     roundl.c
>>>     modfl.c
>>>     ceill.c
>>>     floorl.c
>>>
>>> in the definition of TOINT instead of enumerating choices for
>>> LDBL_MANT_DIG.  It's basically the same thing going on
>>
>> yes, that would be a bit nicer
>> (although other long double formats won't be supported anytime soon)
>>
>> (note that in the future these implementations may need to change
>> the current versions raise inexact flag if result!=input, but the
>> next version of the floating-point extension standard for c
>> will require suppressing inexact, which i dont know how to do
>> with simple arithmetics efficiently without accessing the fenv..)
>>
>>> While I was looking for that, I noticed that this modfl fallback looks
>>> problematic.  Even if long double and double are the same thing
>>> under the hood, I don't think you can cast pointers like that and
>>> assume it works.  It needs a temporary.
>>>
>>> #if LDBL_MANT_DIG == 53 && LDBL_MAX_EXP == 1024
>>> long double modfl(long double x, long double *iptr)
>>> {
>>> return modf(x, (double *)iptr);
>>> }
>>
>> yes, this is an aliasing violation, nice catch
>>
>> the original idea was to allow tail call opt for these wrappers,
>> so they are a single branch instruction, we should fix it but
>> i think we can rely on that the ptr representations are the same:
>>
>> long double modfl(long double x, long double *iptr)
>> {
>>         union {long double *ld; double *d;} u = {iptr};
>>         return modf(x, u.d);
>> }