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Re: incorrect result from cos on non-x86 platform
- From: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba dot org>
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Philip Blundell <philb at gnu dot org>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:11:58 +1100
- Subject: Re: incorrect result from cos on non-x86 platform
- References: <1042673280.28313.40.camel@kc.cam.armlinux.org><3E26FEAE.1060001@redhat.com>
Ulrich Drepper writes:
> Philip Blundell wrote:
> > A Debian user reported that running this program on PowerPC or ARM,
> > using glibc 2.3.1:
>
> I hope you verified that.
>
> I passed the report on to the authors since I cannot see anything
> oviously wrong.
It happens on my powerbook (PowerPC laptop) running Debian.
Interestingly, it only happens for the one particular binary value:
0x3fe9a92cdb25a2e1, which is 0.80190127184058835. Other binary values
in the vicinity don't provoke the bug.
Paul.