[PATCH][BZ #16823] Fix log1pl returning wrong infinity sign

David Miller davem@davemloft.net
Wed Apr 23 00:42:00 GMT 2014


From: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:24:52 +0200

> log1pl (-1) now returns with -inf instead of +inf in FE_DOWNWARD
> rounding mode. The source code producing the -inf for the double/float
> variants is the same, but on S390 the compiler generates a division by
> constant +zero and ignores the (x-x).
> Thus i also changed it to the constant zero in the double/float
> functions.
> I´ve tested it on S390.
> Please test it on other platforms because there are also reports for
> the same failure on aarch64 (see bug comment 1)
> and sparc
> (https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-04/msg00410.html).
> 
> Give feedback in order to commit the patch.

I can confirm that this fixes the testsuite failures on sparc.



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