svn commit: r326669 - head/lib/msun/man

[Bruce Evans]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Dimitry Andric wrote:

> Log:
>  Remove the sentence in math(3) about some long double math functions not
>  being available.
>
>  Submitted by:	Steve Kargl
>  MFC after:	3 days
>
> Modified:
>  head/lib/msun/man/math.3
>
> Modified: head/lib/msun/man/math.3
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/lib/msun/man/math.3	Thu Dec  7 20:09:17 2017	(r326668)
> +++ head/lib/msun/man/math.3	Thu Dec  7 20:38:37 2017	(r326669)
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
> .\"	from: @(#)math.3	6.10 (Berkeley) 5/6/91
> .\" $FreeBSD$
> .\"
> -.Dd December 5, 2010
> +.Dd December 7, 2017
> .Dt MATH 3
> .Os
> .Sh NAME
> @@ -235,12 +235,6 @@ and
> .Vt long double
> values, were written for or imported into subsequent versions of FreeBSD.
> .Sh BUGS
> -Some of the
> -.Vt "long double"
> -math functions in
> -.St -isoC-99
> -are not available.
> -.Pp
> Many of the routines to compute transcendental functions produce
> inaccurate results in other than the default rounding mode.
> .Pp

The removal is technically correct, since math(3) doesn't cover complex
functions and the "imprecise" functions powl() and tgammal() are available.
The unusuability of the imprecise functions is just not documented anywhere
(their man page gives a generic description of error bounds that is off
by a factor of 2**60 for imprecise functons on ld128).

This man page gives stale documentation about the bad implementation of
trig functions on i386.  I fixed that a year ago in r305384, but didn'
notice that it is documented here.  The documentation only claims inaccurate
argument reduction for huge arguments.  Actually, the reduction was inaccurate
for all args (about N bits wrong for an error of 2**N ulps for args near
2**N times Pi/2).

Bruce