Remove slow paths from exp

Szabolcs Nagy szabolcs.nagy@arm.com
Fri Feb 9 18:16:00 GMT 2018


Remove the __slowexp code, so exp is no longer correctly rounded.  The
result is computed to about 70 bits precision so the worst case ulp
error is about 0.500007 in nearest rounding mode.

2018-02-09  Szabolcs Nagy  <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>

	* manual/probes.texi: Remove slowexp probes.
	* math/Makefile: Remove slowexp.
	* sysdeps/generic/math_private.h (__slowexp): Remove.
	* sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_exp.c (__ieee754_exp): Remove __slowexp and
	document error bounds.
	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/slowexp.c: Remove.
	* sysdeps/ia64/fpu/slowexp.c: Remove.
	* sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c: Update comment.
	* sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/slowexp.c: Remove.
	* sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/uexp.h (err_0): Remove.
	* sysdeps/m68k/m680x0/fpu/slowexp.c: Remove.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/power4/fpu/Makefile (CPPFLAGS-slowexp.c): Remove.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/Makefile: Remove slowexp-fma.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/e_exp-avx.c (__slowexp): Remove.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/e_exp-fma.c (__slowexp): Remove.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/e_exp-fma4.c (__slowexp): Remove.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/slowexp-avx.c: Remove.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/slowexp-fma.c: Remove.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/slowexp-fma4.c: Remove.
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