Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148

Diane Bruce db at db.net
Sun Aug 12 23:03:33 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:55:16PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> On 07/26/2012 10:26 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 
> >I've been writing a test harness to vet the special case handling of
> >all the complex functions (excluding cpow so far).  Basically, it's
...
> >follow.
> 
> On the subject of Linux, I tested the relative errors of the Linux 
> versions of clog, casinh, etc.  They performed rather badly.  They 
> really flunked the clog(z) for |z| close to 1 test.

I was very curious about that. Any chance of running that test harness
against the NetBSD routines? At least if we are very late we are very
much better. ;-)

> 
> As for your test program, maybe you could run some script to change the 
> indents to the 8-char tabs when you are done.  It does sound like a 
> useful program, and it would be nice if it were generally available in 
> the FreeBSD source code.

Thanks folks for all that work.

Diane
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