[PATCH v2 2/2] Simplify powl computation for small integral y [BZ #33411]

Joseph Myers josmyers@redhat.com
Tue Oct 21 14:26:38 GMT 2025


On Tue, 21 Oct 2025, Paul Zimmermann wrote:

>        Hi Joseph,
> 
> > > It's odd to use what's essentially a legacy test here rather than putting
> > > the new test input into auto-libm-test-in, given that testing for spurious
> > > overflow is fully handled in the auto-libm-test machinery without needing
> > > special-case C code for a particular test.
> 
> I tried the following change on top of 87e850f and make check subdirs=math
> passes all tests. Are you sure spurious overflow is really handled?

You also need to regenerate auto-libm-test-out-pow.  See the instructions 
at the top of gen-auto-libm-tests.c.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
josmyers@redhat.com



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