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From: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] i386: Move hypot implementation to C
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:28:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mwily9z1ac.fsf@tomate.loria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2110061950550.3641536@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (message from Joseph Myers on Wed, 6 Oct 2021 19:52:12 +0000)

> > In fact we need to handle underflow:
> > 
> >   long double lx = x;
> >   long double ly = y;
> >   double r = sqrtl (lx * lx + ly * ly);
> 
> You probably also need a math_narrow_eval here to ensure the value checked 
> for overflow and returned has definitely been properly narrowed to double 
> first.

right, If x = y = 0x1.fffffffffffffp1023, then lx * lx + ly * ly will not
overflow as long double, nor sqrtl(.), but the conversion to double will.
This should probably be added as a test case (if not already).

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-07  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-06 18:05 [PATCH 0/9] Improve hypot() Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-06 18:05 ` [PATCH 1/9] benchtests: Make hypot input random Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-07  9:48   ` Paul Zimmermann
2021-10-07 11:20     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-07 17:08     ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-06 18:05 ` [PATCH 2/9] benchtests: Add hypotf Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-07 10:40   ` Paul Zimmermann
2021-10-06 18:05 ` [PATCH 3/9] math: Simplify hypotf implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-07  9:44   ` Paul Zimmermann
2021-10-07 11:37     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-07 12:08       ` Paul Zimmermann
2021-10-06 18:05 ` [PATCH 4/9] math: Use an improved algorithm for hypot (dbl-64) Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-06 18:05 ` [PATCH 5/9] math: Use an improved algorithm for hypotl (ldbl-96) Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-06 18:05 ` [PATCH 6/9] math: Use an improved algorithm for hypotl (ldbl-128) Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-06 18:05 ` [PATCH 7/9] math: Remove powerpc e_hypot Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-06 19:43   ` Paul E Murphy
2021-10-06 19:46     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-06 19:51       ` Paul E Murphy
2021-10-12 12:17         ` Paul A. Clarke
2021-10-06 18:05 ` [PATCH 8/9] i386: Move hypot implementation to C Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-06 18:37   ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-06 19:19     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-06 19:20       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-06 19:52         ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-07  8:28           ` Paul Zimmermann [this message]
2021-10-07 17:05             ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-06 18:05 ` [PATCH 9/9] math: Remove the error handling wrapper from hypot and hypotf Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-06 18:38   ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-06 19:23     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-10-07 11:03 ` [PATCH 0/9] Improve hypot() Paul Zimmermann
2021-10-07 12:39   ` Adhemerval Zanella

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