[ballen@uwm.edu] libc/2269: triginometric argument reduction error in libm

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sun May 20 10:51:00 GMT 2001


Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:

> Someone needs to fix libc/sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_sin.S so that it does
> proper range reduction, I think.  It works fine on non-x86 chips.

It's not worth doing this.  What is the result of such a large
argument good for?  It has absolutely no meaning.

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