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From: Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com>
To: Craig Howland <howland@LGSInnovations.com>, newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't call double rint from float powf.
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d879f6e-c2c5-00e4-5552-340a36b6d3b8@sifive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1bd39401-e1b2-5be6-4418-9e6a809964da@LGSInnovations.com>

On 12/11/2017 04:37 PM, Craig Howland wrote:
> On 12/11/2017 07:08 PM, Jim Wilson wrote:
>> -               if(x<0.0&&rint(y)!=y) exc.retval = -HUGE_VAL;
>> +               if(x<0.0&&rintf(y)!=y) exc.retval = -HUGE_VAL;
>>               }
>>               if (_LIB_VERSION == _POSIX_)
>>                   errno = ERANGE;
> To be most rigorous, "0.0" on the same lines as the rintf() should be 
> "0.0F" (as otherwise the comparison strictly should be done in double).  
> (Not addressing the exact change you are making, but is the same class 
> of fix and are on the same line of source code.)

Any reasonable compiler will get this right.  GCC does a float compare 
here even if you compile without optimization.  So no fix here is 
required, though I can redo the patch if you want.

Jim

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-12 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-12  0:14 Jim Wilson
2017-12-12  3:45 ` Craig Howland
2017-12-12 12:49   ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-12-12 18:14     ` Jim Wilson
2017-12-12 18:05   ` Jim Wilson [this message]
2017-12-12 19:00     ` Craig Howland
2017-12-12 19:39 ` [PATCH v2] " Jim Wilson
2017-12-13 10:35   ` Corinna Vinschen

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