Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 11:05:42 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, dmaddox@scsn.net Subject: Re: Something broken in libm Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961214110153.7340e-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199612141125.WAA02738@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > Try this fix. __ieee754_pow() only uses two functions that change > when HAVE_FPU is defined, __ieee754_sqrt() and scalbn(). > __iee754_sqrt() is to simple to be be broken, but scalbn() left > garbage on the FPU stack. ... > It's surprising that this problem hasn't been noticed before. Hm... According to my mail archives, I started a discussion about povray crashing when linked with msun near the end of May 1994. At that time, no answer was found. I'll try this patch now. :) -johnhome | help
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