[PATCH] Update sparc ULPs.

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Sun Nov 18 22:03:00 GMT 2012


On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, David Miller wrote:

> I haven't looked deeply into them yet, but I wonder if they are
> related to these snippets you added to the long-double implementation
> of these routines when those tests were added, for example from
> math/s_clog10l.c:
> 
> ====================
> /* To avoid spurious underflows, use this definition to treat IBM long
>    double as approximating an IEEE-style format.  */
> #if LDBL_MANT_DIG == 106
> # undef LDBL_EPSILON
> # define LDBL_EPSILON 0x1p-106L
> #endif
> ====================

I don't think special code for the peculiarities of a non-IEEE type, that 
is clearly conditioned so it won't apply for any IEEE type, can have 
anything to do with failures for an IEEE type.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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