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From: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen@missouri.edu>
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Subject: Re: clang is almost useless for complex arithmetic
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On 03/25/2014 07:22 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> It appears that clang developers have chosen the naive
> complex division algorithm, and it does not matter whether
> one turns CX_LIMITED_RANGE on or off.  This means that=20
> if one uses clang with complex types, one must be careful
> with the range of values allowed in complex division.  In
> other words, implementation of complex libm routines cannot
> use complex data types and must fallback to a decomposition
> into real and imaginary components.=20

Could someone write a patch for clang to fix this?