cvs version: make check FAIL

[Lowell Johnson]

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 01:42 am, picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr wrote:
> Hello
>
> Instead of computing 2 times fabs(fn), why not storing it in a
> variable ?
>
>        result->val = fn;
> -      result->err = GSL_DBL_EPSILON*fabs(fn);
> +      result->err = 2.0*GSL_DBL_EPSILON;
> +      double factor = fabs(fn);
> +      if (factor > 1.0)
> +          result->err *= factor;
>
> Have a nice day.

Sure, that sounds fine to me.  The cost of the extra fabs() is rather 
trivial, but avoiding it will save a few clock cycles.

I've attached a patch to be used in place of the earlier patch.

Thanks.

    Lowell
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