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Re: Fix for bz#13658 - using fsincos on x86-64
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
> > I can add a couple of testcases. How do we want to continue? Should we use
> > the patch to fix the double case - and then later handle long double, or do
> > you want everything fixed at the same time?
>
> Andreas, Thanks for helping!
>
> Incremental improvement is the best way forward in my opinion.
Agreed.
> * Fix the double case.
Yes. For 32-bit x86 it looks like all of float, double and long double
are affected (float and double should be easy to fix).
> * File a new bugzilla issue to fix the long double case noting
> Joseph's suggestion.
Yes. Point to this discussion.
> * Add new test cases to cover the problem.
Yes. If necessary, disable them for the affected long double format, with
a comment pointing to the new bug (rather than adding enormous numbers of
ulps as expected for the new tests for long double).
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Joseph S. Myers
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