[PATCHv2 06/14] Replace M_PI2l with pi_2_d in libm-test.inc
Joseph Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Mon May 23 16:59:00 GMT 2016
On Fri, 20 May 2016, Paul E. Murphy wrote:
> This is useful in situations where the long double type is
> less precise than the type under test.
>
> * libm-test.inc: Replace usage of M_PI2l with
> [pi_2_d]: New macro.
I'm not convinced that adding several extra local constants is the right
approach here.
For the API for float128 to be feature-complete compared to long double,
it should include constants such as M_PI_2f128 for all the long double
constants in <math.h>. Which means that there is always a constant from
<math.h> that can be used in these cases; you don't need yet another copy
of the digits of this constant. You might, for example, have a macro MCST
defined for each type and use MCST (PI_2) here (which would expand to
M_PI_2 for float and double - there aren't float versions of these
<math.h> constants - M_PI_2l for long double, M_PI_2f128 for float128).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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