[PATCH v2 2/2] Simplify powl computation for small integral y [BZ #33411]
Siddhesh Poyarekar
siddhesh@sourceware.org
Wed Oct 29 23:00:19 GMT 2025
On 2025-10-29 18:53, H.J. Lu wrote:
> This caused:
>
> FAIL: math/test-float64x-pow
> original exit status 1
> testing _Float64x (without inline functions)
> Failure: pow (0x1p+8192, 0x1p+0): Exception "Overflow" set
> Failure: pow_downward (0x1p+8192, 0x1p+0): Exception "Overflow" set
> Failure: pow_towardzero (0x1p+8192, 0x1p+0): Exception "Overflow" set
> Failure: pow_upward (0x1p+8192, 0x1p+0): Exception "Overflow" set
>
> on i686 with -O2 -march=i686.
>
So the i686 implementation of pow also has the spurious overflow set?
Does it have an arch-specific implementation?
Sid
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