Fix ldbl-128 powl sign of result in overflow / underflow cases (bug 17097)

[Andreas Jaeger]

On 06/27/2014 11:52 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> This patch fixes bug 17097, ldbl-128 powl producing overflowing /
> underflowing results with positive sign when the result should have
> been negative.  This was shown up by the tests in non-default rounding
> modes added by my patch for bug 16315, but isn't actually limited to
> non-default rounding modes: rather, when rounding to nearest the
> wrappers produced a result with the correct sign and so always hid the
> bug unless -lieee was used to disable the wrappers.  The problem is
> that in the cases where Y is large enough that the result overflows or
> underflows for X not very close to 1, but not large enough to overflow
> or underflow for all X != ± 1 (in the latter case Y is always an
> even integer), a positive overflowing / underflowing result is always
> returned, rather than one with the correct sign.  This patch moves the
> relevant part of computation of the sign earlier and returns a result
> of the correct sign.

Thanks,
Andreas
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