[PATCH v2 3/3] manual: Cube roots are rarely representable

DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
Sat Mar 30 00:27:44 GMT 2024


Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> writes:

> -These functions return the cube root of @var{x}.  They cannot
> -fail; every representable real value has a representable real cube root.

> +These functions return the cube root of @var{x}.  They cannot
> +fail; every representable real value has a real cube root,
> +and rounding it to a representable value
> +never causes overflow nor underflow.

Wording is OK but the $subject says the exact opposite...



More information about the Libc-alpha mailing list