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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org,  libc-ports@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BZ #14412] Define __sincos_finite as a fast version of sincos
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fvy9v4xq.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130429102739.GE1330@spoyarek.pnq.redhat.com> (Siddhesh	Poyarekar's message of "Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:57:40 +0530")

Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> writes:

> This patch brings back the assembly implementation of sincos (with
> some changes) to give a fast alternative to the default sincos
> implementation.  This is defined as __sincos_finite and is used if the
> implementing program is compiled with the -ffinite-math-only gcc flag.

This is the wrong approach.  The bug is not about not handling Inf or
NaN in sincos, but allowing inaccurate result from certain finite
numbers.  The -ffinite-math-only switch does not cover the latter.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-29 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-29 10:26 Siddhesh Poyarekar
2013-04-29 13:31 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2013-04-29 13:34 ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-04-29 14:02   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2013-04-29 14:16   ` Ondřej Bílka
2013-04-29 14:53     ` Andrew Haley
2013-04-29 15:19       ` Rich Felker
2013-04-30  8:59 ` Ondřej Bílka
2013-04-30  9:03   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar

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