From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sun Dec 10 17:12:29 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D60E91393; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:12:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.21]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "troutmask", Issuer "troutmask" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 022FB77A7C; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:12:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id vBAHCSx0048766 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 10 Dec 2017 09:12:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id vBAHCSDE048765; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 09:12:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 09:12:28 -0800 From: Steve Kargl To: Dimitry Andric Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document powl and tgammal kludges Message-ID: <20171210171228.GB48536@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Reply-To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu References: <20171209010205.GA42226@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:12:29 -0000 On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 9 Dec 2017, at 02:02, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > > The following patch documents the remaining kludges that > > theraven@ committed in r255294 on 2013-09-06. I have > > cleaned up all of the others, but powl and tgammal remain. > > ngie@ seems to have documented the existence of powl with > > r290605, but did not document the rather poor numerical > > accuracy of the result. tgammal remains undocumented. As it > > is unlikely that theraven@ will document the nature of his > > kludge nor the existence of tgammal, I have have prepared > > a patch that documents the expected numerical accuracy in BUGS > > sections, and have also documented tgammal. > > Thanks, committed in r326748. > Thanks for the quick commit. -- Steve