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Date:      Tue, 7 Sep 2021 09:00:24 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gordon Bergling <gbergling@gmail.com>
Cc:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BUG in libm's powf
Message-ID:  <ED84D274-F78E-4145-8634-920817B5746B@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <AAC47D81-C45E-45E0-A7F5-543BCBBA811F@gmail.com>
References:  <20210906152836.GA86615@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <01D81389-45D1-4278-8DC1-7995D34D0276@FreeBSD.org> <20210906175318.GA87474@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <AAA24AAD-86C5-4736-AD0C-EFBCA3FA59B2@FreeBSD.org> <20210906180459.GA87487@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <AAC47D81-C45E-45E0-A7F5-543BCBBA811F@gmail.com>

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> On 6 Sep 2021, at 21:22, Gordon Bergling <gbergling@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> could you turn to test program into an AFT test to prevent further =
regressions?

Certainly!

M

>=20
> =E2=80=94Gordon
>=20
>> Am 06.09.2021 um 20:04 schrieb Steve Kargl =
<sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>:
>>=20
>> No, thank you for the quick response.
>>=20
>> Of course, a one character diff might be easier to review. :-)
>>=20
>> --
>> steve
>>=20
>> On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 06:55:07PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
>>> Thanks!
>>>=20
>>> And it's committed!
>>>=20
>>> M
>>>=20
>>>> 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
>>>=20
>>> --
>>> Mark R V Murray
>>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> --
>> Steve
>>=20
>=20

--
Mark R V Murray


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