How do we test the IBM ieee754 math library?

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Mon Nov 19 07:58:00 GMT 2001


On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:23:56AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Stephen L Moshier <moshier@mediaone.net> writes:
> 
> > This may not be worthwhile trying to fix except to ask what
> > computer these programs were developed on or what computers they have
> > actually been tested on.
> 
> This code is never meant for x86 in the 80-bit mode.  It was developed
> on PPC and should just run on other platforms with sane FPU
> implementations.
> 

Stephen, have you compared the result of the IBM libm functions in
64bit mode on x86 vs. the asm version on x86?


H.J.



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