Fix csin, csinh, ccos, ccosh missing underflows (bug 15405)
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Apr 26 19:23:00 GMT 2013
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > + if (fabs (__real__ retval) < DBL_MIN)
> > + {
> > + volatile double force_underflow
> > + = __real__ retval * __real__ retval;
> > + (void) force_underflow;
> > + }
> > + if (fabs (__imag__ retval) < DBL_MIN)
> > + {
> > + volatile double force_underflow
> > + = __imag__ retval * __imag__ retval;
> > + (void) force_underflow;
> > + }
>
> Couldn't this be an else if? I expect we only need to raise underflow once if
> both are underflowing, aren't we?
Generically the reason to avoid "else if" in such cases is to avoid issues
in the case where the first part was an exact zero (so meets the if
condition, but the multiplication shouldn't and doesn't cause underflow)
while the second is a genuine underflow that needs the multiplication to
get the exception. Maybe the case of exact zero doesn't occur here, but
it's more obvious without the "else" that the exception will always be
raised if needed (and I don't think either the zero case or the underflow
case is going to be the common case).
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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