run-time g++ bug

Jonathan Thornburg jthorn@galileo.thp.univie.ac.at
Wed Aug 30 23:36:00 GMT 2000


In message http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2000-08/msg00697.html ,
Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.dot.com> wrote
> IIRC, it's a bug in the inline-asm implementation of pow() in the
> glibc that shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.0.  You can confirm this by
> compiling with -D__NO_MATH_INLINES.  In this is the case, you'll have
> to upgrade glibc or always compile with this flag.

Is this bug still present in the glibc shipped with newer Red Hat 
releases (6.1, 6.2)?  More generally, which glibc version fixes it?
I have a lot of code using pow() which typically gets compiled with
inlining, so I'd like to pin this down...

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