[PATCH COMMITTED] Regenerate sparc ULPs.

David Miller davem@davemloft.net
Wed Apr 23 17:03:00 GMT 2014


From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:51:09 +0000

> On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> For example, for test-float and test-ifloat y1_upward gets a ULP of 10,
>> and for test-ldouble and test-ildoubl y1_upward gets a ULP of 10 and
>> y1_downward gets a ULP of 13.
>> 
>> I see that we use an upper limit of 13 for IBM long double in the
>> inexact cases... should we use something similar for 128-bit IEEE
>> cases as well?
> 
> No.  That increased limit is an allowance for IBM long double not being an 
> IEEE type and the underlying arithmetic operations having errors of up to 
> 3 ulps.  If you get larger errors for an IEEE type, the implementations of 
> the relevant libm functions should be fixed to reduce error accumulation.

Ok, right now it's just y1_upward() giving me an error of 10 ULPs for
float.



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