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Re: How do we test the IBM ieee754 math library?

From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Cc: moshier at moshier dot ne dot mediaone dot net, libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 09:29:18 -0800
Subject: Re: How do we test the IBM ieee754 math library?
References: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0111250814190.13720-100000@moshier.ne.mediaone.net> <m3wv0en4r7.fsf@myware.mynet>

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:23:56AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Stephen L Moshier <moshier@mediaone.net> writes:
> 
> > This may not be worthwhile trying to fix except to ask what
> > computer these programs were developed on or what computers they have
> > actually been tested on.
> 
> This code is never meant for x86 in the 80-bit mode.  It was developed
> on PPC and should just run on other platforms with sane FPU
> implementations.
> 

Stephen, have you compared the result of the IBM libm functions in
64bit mode on x86 vs. the asm version on x86?


H.J.

References:
- Re: How do we test the IBM ieee754 math library?
  - From: Stephen L Moshier
- Re: How do we test the IBM ieee754 math library?
  - From: Ulrich Drepper

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