Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:43:25 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: freebsd-numerics@freebsd.org Subject: bug in j0f() Message-ID: <20141202214325.GA94909@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Anyone object to the following patch?
Index: e_j0f.c
===================================================================
--- e_j0f.c (revision 275211)
+++ e_j0f.c (working copy)
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
* j0(x) = 1/sqrt(pi) * (P(0,x)*cc - Q(0,x)*ss) / sqrt(x)
* y0(x) = 1/sqrt(pi) * (P(0,x)*ss + Q(0,x)*cc) / sqrt(x)
*/
- if(ix>0x80000000) z = (invsqrtpi*cc)/sqrtf(x);
+ if(ix>0x4b800000) z = (invsqrtpi*cc)/sqrtf(x);
else {
u = pzerof(x); v = qzerof(x);
z = invsqrtpi*(u*cc-v*ss)/sqrtf(x);
Clearly, the value 0x8000000 was a mistake in the original
translation from double to float. In looking over other
codebases, one finds
OpenBSD
if(ix>0x80000000U) z = (invsqrtpi*cc)/sqrtf(x);
NetBSD
#ifdef DEAD_CODE
if(ix>0x80000000) z = (invsqrtpi*cc)/sqrtf(x);
else
#endif
{
glibc
if(ix>0x48000000) z = (invsqrtpi*cc)/__ieee754_sqrtf(x);
OpenBSD is clearly wrong. NetBSD suppresses a code optimization.
glibc simply copied the test from e_j0.c to e_j0f.c. The glibc
choice is somewhat too small (although I haven't done any extensive
testing, yet).
prn(0x48000000); /* 0x1p17 = 1.31072000e+05 */
prn(0x4b800000); /* 0x1p24 = 1.67772160e+07 */
--
Steve
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