Who is fixing libm-ieee754?
H.J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Sat Feb 21 17:50:00 GMT 1998
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> In case it helps anyone -
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> I ran the ELEFUNT elementary function tests against the math libraries
> from libc 5 and 6. I don't really know how to interpret them, but
> they're at ftp://rabi.phys.columbia.edu/pub/elefunt.shar . I used egcs
> 1.0.1's C compiler in combination with f2c from the Netlib archive.
>
> The single precision tests probably didn't test libc6's true single
> precision math functions.
>
I believe egcs 1.0.2 has some serious bugs on x86 when fp is
used. It miscompiled libm-ieee754 in glibc 2.1 when -O2 is used.
I will try to come up with a small test case to show it.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
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