public inbox for libc-ports@sourceware.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	       "libc-ports@sourceware.org" <libc-ports@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Results of cos(pi/2) tests are dependent on error rounding pi/2 to a type.
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51676FFC.2090301@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m238uxaroc.fsf@igel.home>

On 04/11/2013 01:44 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> I'm getting this result on ppc for long double:
> 
> Failure: Test: cos (pi/2) == 1.082856673921913968223746169860580e-32
> Result:
>  is:          1.08285667392191396822e-32   0x1.c1cd129024e088a67cc7p-107
>  should be:   1.08285667392191396822e-32   0x1.c1cd129024e088a67cc7p-107
>  difference:  5.71253355584909492648e-62   0x1.78000000000000000000p-204
>  ulp       :  376.0000
>  max.ulp   :  0.0000
> Maximal error of `cos'
>  is      : 376 ulp
>  accepted: 1 ulp
> Failure: Test: sincos (pi/2, &sin_res, &cos_res) puts 1.082856673921913968223746169860580e-32 in cos_res
> Result:
>  is:          1.08285667392191396822e-32   0x1.c1cd129024e088a67cc7p-107
>  should be:   1.08285667392191396822e-32   0x1.c1cd129024e088a67cc7p-107
>  difference:  5.71253355584909492648e-62   0x1.78000000000000000000p-204
>  ulp       :  376.0000
>  max.ulp   :  0.0000
> Maximal error of `sincos'
>  is      : 376 ulp
>  accepted: 1 ulp
> 
> Filed as PR15359.

Could you print the following for me?

printf ("%.100000g\n", (long double)(M_PIl/2.0L));

The most likely scenario is that I lost digits of precision when using only %.100Le.

I'm trying to get my hands on a fast ppc box to test stuff on.

Cheers,
Carlos.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-04-12  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-11 12:59 Carlos O'Donell
2013-04-11 17:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-04-12  2:22   ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=51676FFC.2090301@redhat.com \
    --to=carlos@redhat.com \
    --cc=libc-alpha@sourceware.org \
    --cc=libc-ports@sourceware.org \
    --cc=schwab@linux-m68k.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).