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From: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@sourceware.org> To: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [glibc] manual: logb(x) is floor(log2(fabs(x))) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 12:29:27 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <20240403122927.2908E3847718@sourceware.org> (raw) https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=b7d15bd1f00ae3f941150c9e49e65fbc6595adda commit b7d15bd1f00ae3f941150c9e49e65fbc6595adda Author: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> Date: Sun Mar 31 22:38:39 2024 +0200 manual: logb(x) is floor(log2(fabs(x))) log2(3) doesn't accept negative input, but it seems logb(3) does accept it. Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/ZeYKUOKYS7G90SaV@debian/T/#u> Reported-by: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> Cc: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Cc: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> Cc: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> Diff: --- manual/math.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/manual/math.texi b/manual/math.texi index 2f6ee253b9..c54eaebb65 100644 --- a/manual/math.texi +++ b/manual/math.texi @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ These functions return the base-2 logarithm of @var{x}. @safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}} These functions extract the exponent of @var{x} and return it as a floating-point value. If @code{FLT_RADIX} is two, @code{logb} is equal -to @code{floor (log2 (x))}, except it's probably faster. +to @code{floor (log2 (fabs (x)))}, except it's probably faster. If @var{x} is de-normalized, @code{logb} returns the exponent @var{x} would have if it were normalized. If @var{x} is infinity (positive or
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