weird optimization in sin+cos, x86 backend

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Thu Feb 16 15:08:00 GMT 2012


On 02/16/2012 02:42 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2012-02-15 15:18:45 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> >  On 02/15/2012 09:30 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>>> >  >>  But to be absolutely clear, glibc's libm doesn't have a problem
>>>>> > >>  meeting C99, AFAIK.
>>> >  >  That's not quite correct. It is completely broken in directed
>>> >  >  rounding modes (up to crashes).
>> >
>> >  Eh?  C99 doesn't require directed rounding modes.  I'll grant you,
>> >  if they are provided they shouldn't crash.  :-)
> C99 doesn't require directed rounding modes, but as long as they
> are claimed to be supported by<fenv.h>, they should work:

Ah, I see.  So, we could bring gcc+glibc into compliance by not
defining the rounding mode macros.

Andrew.



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