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[Bug target/47558] 163267 breaks exception traceback in xplor-nih


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47558

--- Comment #69 from Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq at lps dot ens.fr> 2011-02-07 22:58:33 UTC ---
> So, what you are saying is that the system routine produces an answer that
> isn't correct down to the last digit of precision for at least 1 input?

I have not looked in detail to the accuracy of the darwin10 or FSF
implementation in their common range of validity. I am pretty sure that they
are about the same, but even if the darwin10 implementation has a maximum error
twice that of the FSF one, I think this not the reason of PR42333 (it would be
solved by some increase of the tolerance for the comparison). The reason being
that the naive, but fast, algorithm (a+ib)/(c+id)=(a+ib)(c-id)/(c*c+d*d) gives
a sound result only if c*c+d*d does not yield 0.0 nor Inf as it does with the
values in gcc.dg/torture/builtin-math-7.c. 

This is why I think the comments should stress the extended range of validity
for the FSF division rather than a hypothetical accuracy.


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