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Re: [ballen@uwm.edu] libc/2269: triginometric argument reduction error in libm
- To: aj at suse dot de
- Subject: Re: [ballen@uwm.edu] libc/2269: triginometric argument reduction error in libm
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 03:42:43 -0700
- CC: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, ballen at uwm dot edu, moshier at mediaone dot net
- References: <u8zoc8l5hx.fsf@gromit.moeb>
- Reply-to: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
> Cc: ballen@uwm.edu, Stephen L Moshier <moshier@mediaone.net>
> From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
> Date: 20 May 2001 11:44:10 +0200
> Hi Glibc Developers,
>
> here's a report about problems with the trigonmetric range reduction
> in glibc.
>
> Any comments or suggestions?
Someone needs to fix libc/sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_sin.S so that it does
proper range reduction, I think. It works fine on non-x86 chips.
Intel's manual (I was looking at the 'Pentium Processor Family
Developer's Manual, volume 3') has some spectacularly bad advice on
how to do range reduction. I would suggest ignoring it.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>