Math problems on PPC with gcc-2.96 20000928

[Ulrich Drepper]

Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:

> The pow problems go away if sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c is
> compiled with -O1, haven't found the miscompiled routine for tan
> yet. Is anyone else seeing this? I'll try to find the bug(s) in gcc,
> but I'm a bit unfamiliar with math in gcc, so it may take a while.

I don't know about any problem.

> Another problem showed up during test-float, but this was caused by an 
> oversight while making glibc aliasing safe, fixed by the attached patch.

Thanks, I've applied the patch.

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