Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 18:12:22 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> To: David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: long double broken on i386? Message-ID: <20071207180901.G853@delplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20071206210755.GA98191@VARK.MIT.EDU> References: <20071002001154.GA3782@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20071002172317.GA95181@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20071002173237.GA12586@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20071003103519.X14175@delplex.bde.org> <20071010204249.GA7446@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20071203074407.GA10989@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20071203145105.GA16203@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20071205185132.GA91591@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20071205203235.GA40539@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20071206151017.U10456@delplex.bde.org> <20071206210755.GA98191@VARK.MIT.EDU>
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, David Schultz wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007, Bruce Evans wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:51:32PM -0500, David Schultz wrote: >>> This is probably a good idea if freebsd wants to maintain the >>> same algorithm across, say, sinf, sin, and sinl. I can produce >>> code for the ieee128 case, but I have no way to test it. >> >> I guarantee that it will have bugs if it is not tested :-). > > Panther is down, so neither do I unless there's another sparc64 > machine in the cluster. I will ask about getting Steve access if > that seems helpful. It's been down for a year or two. This has given me an excuse to not work on long doubles. I don't have any use for sparcs but think they set a high standard for floating point, at least with Sun compilers and libraries. Bruce
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