From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
Glibc hackers <libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update ulps on i386/s390{,x} for GCC 3.4
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040611141946.GO5191@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF06DD9B66.854303FD-ON42256EB0.005194F8-42256EB0.00597516@de.ibm.com>
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 06:17:06PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > ... and GCC 3.4 compiled libm on s390/s390x
> > fails a bunch of tests for exceptions being raised/not-raised on NaN/Inf
> > arguments in test-double (e.g. sqrt (NaN)).
> > Will look into that next.
> The reason for this is the generic implementation of __ieee754_sqrt.
> I side stepped the problem by defining s390 specific function that
> use the hardware instructions. See:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-04/msg00119.html
See my later patch which fixes this.
That is not to say it isn't good to switch to hw sqrt on s390{,x}
(assuming that it is faster than the generic one and precise).
Though, I don't think we should be actually removing ulps allowances
for older GCCs as long as we still support them.
Jakub
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-11 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-11 13:45 Jakub Jelinek
2004-06-11 16:16 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2004-06-11 16:33 ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2004-06-11 16:41 ` Martin Schwidefsky
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