Re: Patch: FYI: add ulp tests

[Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 07:41 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew John Hughes <A.Hughes@dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> Andrew> Great -- I wasn't sure how to handle ulp.  BTW, do you know how we
> Andrew> handle the StrictMath variants of these methods?  They seem to be coded
> Andrew> in Java; presumably they are translations of the fdlibm methods, as the
> Andrew> same algorithms have to be used.
> 
> Yeah, Eric Blake translated the fdlibm code into Java back when he
> wrote StrictMath.  I forget the rationale for this but I'm sure it is
> in the archives.

Eric's original design ideas (and ideas for alternate interpretations)
are described in:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2002-02/msg00178.html
(Read the whole thread for the whole story)

Cheers,

Mark

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