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From: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>
To: newlib@sourceware.org
Cc: tydeman@tybor.com
Subject: ldexp with directed rounding
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:35:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mwfsarrrqp.fsf@coriandre.loria.fr> (raw)

       Hi,

it seems that Newlib does not honor the rounding mode for ldexp(0x1p-1074,-1):
for rounding updwards it should return 0x1p-1074 and not 0.

Test program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <fenv.h>

int main()
{
  volatile double x = 1.0, y;
  while (x * 0.5 != 0)
    x = x * 0.5;
  fesetround (FE_TONEAREST);
  y = ldexp (x, -1);
  printf ("FE_TONEAREST:  y=%la\n", y);
  fesetround (FE_TOWARDZERO);
  y = ldexp (x, -1);
  printf ("FE_TOWARDZERO: y=%la\n", y);
  fesetround (FE_UPWARD);
  y = ldexp (x, -1);
  printf ("FE_UPWARD:     y=%la\n", y);
  fesetround (FE_DOWNWARD);
  y = ldexp (x, -1);
  printf ("FE_DOWNWARD:   y=%la\n", y);
}

With newlib-4.3.0.20230120 on x86_64:

zimmerma@salade:~/svn/tbd/20/src/binary64$ gcc -fno-builtin check_ldexp.c /localdisk/zimmerma/${NEWLIB}/libm.a
zimmerma@salade:~/svn/tbd/20/src/binary64$ ./a.out
FE_TONEAREST:  y=0x0p+0
FE_TOWARDZERO: y=0x0p+0
FE_UPWARD:     y=0x0p+0
FE_DOWNWARD:   y=0x0p+0

With GNU libc:

zimmerma@salade:~/svn/tbd/20/src/binary64$ gcc -fno-builtin check_ldexp.c -lm
zimmerma@salade:~/svn/tbd/20/src/binary64$ ./a.out
FE_TONEAREST:  y=0x0p+0
FE_TOWARDZERO: y=0x0p+0
FE_UPWARD:     y=0x0.0000000000001p-1022
FE_DOWNWARD:   y=0x0p+0

This test was suggested by Fred Tydeman.

Paul

                 reply	other threads:[~2023-02-27 16:35 UTC|newest]

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