pi/2 again...
David Miller
davem@davemloft.net
Thu May 2 20:35:00 GMT 2013
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 20:21:37 +0000
> pi/2 rounded to nearest for ldbl-128 is
> 0x1.921fb54442d18469898cc51701b8p+0L (computed with MPFR). The cosine of
> that value, again rounded to nearest, is
> 0x3.9a252049c1114cf98e804177d4c8p-116L.
>
> That cosine is exactly the value currently expected in libm-test.inc (but
> MPFR prefers a different exponent when displaying it). If M_PI_2l, shown
> as a hex float, is equal to the value given above, then you have a problem
> with the ldbl-128 cos function being inaccurate near pi/2 (maybe a range
> reduction issue) - which will need filing as such in Bugzilla and fixing.
M_PI_2l is printed as a hex float equal to the value above so it's a cos()
issue, bugzilla filed.
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