tan(pi/2) overflow
Ian Lance Taylor
iant@google.com
Sat Apr 9 00:06:00 GMT 2011
Edwin Helbert Aponte Angarita <helbert2a@gmail.com> writes:
> "Mathematically, the tangent function has singularities at odd multiples
> of pi/2. If the argument x is too close to one of these singularities,
> tan will signal overflow."
When I look at the glibc source code for tan, I don't see anything which
indicates overflow. I think that the glibc documentation does not
reflect how the library actually behaves in this case.
Ian
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