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From: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
To: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>
Cc: newlib@sourceware.org, vincenzo.innocente@cern.ch
Subject: Re: huge error for pow
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2023 16:48:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOox84v-e50QYVF8jFkRB_kXSOnfj855o9x6HPU52vQFtz_ffg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mwa61p7dpd.fsf@coriandre.loria.fr>

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Thanks Paul,

Do you think you can put together a patch?

-- Jeff J.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 9:27 AM Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>
wrote:

>        Hi,
>
> while testing Newlib 4.3.0, I noticed the following huge error:
>
> zimmerma@salade:~/svn/tbd/20/src/binary64$ VERBOSE=-v ./doitb.newlib pow
> 1000
> Checking pow with newlib-4.3.0.20230120
> Using seed 1619945
> pow 0 -1 -0x1.647ff80007ff8p-576,-0x1.3d018267f12fp+48 [inf] inf inf
> libm gives inf
> mpfr gives -inf
>
> The exponent y in x^y is a large odd integer, thus since x is negative we
> should get a negative number as result.
>
> This issue was apparently already present in 3.3.0, but we only discovered
> it now.
>
> Best regards,
> Paul
>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-07 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-07 14:27 Paul Zimmermann
2023-02-07 21:48 ` Jeff Johnston [this message]
2023-02-08  7:02   ` Paul Zimmermann
2023-04-08  6:00 Paul Zimmermann
2023-04-11  9:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-04-11  9:37   ` Paul Zimmermann

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