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Date:      Mon, 6 Sep 2021 18:55:07 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BUG in libm's powf
Message-ID:  <AAA24AAD-86C5-4736-AD0C-EFBCA3FA59B2@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20210906175318.GA87474@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <20210906152836.GA86615@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <01D81389-45D1-4278-8DC1-7995D34D0276@FreeBSD.org> <20210906175318.GA87474@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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Thanks!

And it's committed!

M

> On 6 Sep 2021, at 18:53, Steve Kargl =
<sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>=20
> Fine with me.  I don't have a phabricator account and
> bugzilla reports seems to get lost in the ether.
>=20
> --
> steve
>=20
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 06:45:11PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
>> Hi
>>=20
>> I've opened a Phab ticket for this. I hope that's OK?
>>=20
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31865
>>=20
>> M
>>=20
>>> On 6 Sep 2021, at 16:28, Steve Kargl =
<sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> Paul Zimmermann has identified a bug in Openlibm's powf(),
>>> which is identical to FreeBSD's libm.  Both derived from
>>> fdlibm. https://github.com/JuliaMath/openlibm/issues/212.
>>>=20
>>> Consider
>>>=20
>>> % cat h.c
>>> #include <math.h>
>>> #include <stdio.h>
>>> int
>>> main(void)
>>> {
>>>  float x, y, z;
>>>  x =3D  0x1.ffffecp-1F;
>>>  y =3D -0x1.000002p+27F;
>>>  z =3D  0x1.557a86p115F;
>>>  printf("%e %e %e <-- should be %e\n", x, y, powf(x,y), z);
>>>  return 0;
>>> }
>>>=20
>>> % cc -o h -fno-builtin h.c -lm && ./h
>>> 9.999994e-01 -1.342177e+08 inf <-- should be 5.540807e+34
>>>=20
>>> Note, clang seems to have a builtin for powf(), but one cannot
>>> count of clang being the only consumer of libm.  With the patch
>>> at the end of this email, I get
>>>=20
>>> % cc -o h -fno-builtin h.c -L/home/kargl/trunk/math/libm/msun -lmath =
&& ./h
>>> 9.999994e-01 -1.342177e+08 5.540807e+34 <-- should be 5.540807e+34
>>>=20
>>> Watch for copy and paste whitespace corruption.
>>>=20
>>> --- /usr/src/lib/msun/src/e_powf.c	2021-02-21 03:29:00.956878000 =
-0800
>>> +++ src/e_powf.c	2021-09-06 08:17:09.800008000 -0700
>>> @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
>>>    /* |y| is huge */
>>> 	if(iy>0x4d000000) { /* if |y| > 2**27 */
>>> 	/* over/underflow if x is not close to one */
>>> -	    if(ix<0x3f7ffff7) return (hy<0)? sn*huge*huge:sn*tiny*tiny;
>>> +	    if(ix<0x3f7ffff6) return (hy<0)? sn*huge*huge:sn*tiny*tiny;
>>> 	    if(ix>0x3f800007) return (hy>0)? sn*huge*huge:sn*tiny*tiny;
>>> 	/* now |1-x| is tiny <=3D 2**-20, suffice to compute
>>> 	   log(x) by x-x^2/2+x^3/3-x^4/4 */
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> --
>>> Steve
>>>=20
>>=20
>> --
>> Mark R V Murray
>>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> --
> Steve
>=20

--
Mark R V Murray


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