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Re: Sine and Cosine Accuracy

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Scott Robert Ladd <scott dot ladd at coyotegulch dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:26:26 -0700
Subject: Re: Sine and Cosine Accuracy
References: <4295DE66.2050701@coyotegulch.com> <20050526154754.GA10785@redhat.com> <4295F374.6070901@coyotegulch.com>

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> I've never quite understood the necessity for performing trig operations
> on excessively large values, but perhaps my problem domain hasn't
> included such applications.

Whether you think it necessary or not, the ISO C functions allow
such arguments, and we're not allowed to break that without cause.

r~

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