Re: [patch] pow.3: Add note on performance characteristics of pow

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hello Manuel,

On 10/17/2014 03:51 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> On 17 October 2014 09:58, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> +inputs. The inputs that produce such behavior are different for
>>>> +.BR powf (),
>>>> +.BR pow ()
>>>> +and
>>>> +.BR powl ().
>>>> +
>>
>> The slow fallback is only taken for pow, not powf or powl.
> 
> Updated patch inline:
> 
> diff --git a/man3/pow.3 b/man3/pow.3
> index d0a2ea8..1b05292 100644
> --- a/man3/pow.3
> +++ b/man3/pow.3
> @@ -320,6 +320,18 @@ The variant returning
>  also conforms to
>  SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
>  .SH BUGS
> +On 64-bits,
> +.\"
> +.\" https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13932
> +.BR pow ()
> +may be more than 10,000 times slower for some (rare) inputs than for
> other nearby
> +inputs.  This only affects
> +.BR pow (),
> +and not
> +.BR powf ()
> +nor
> +.BR powl ().
> +
>  In glibc 2.9 and earlier,
>  .\"
>  .\" http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6776
> 
> and attached in case gmail messes it up.

Thanks for revising the patch. I've applied it.

Cheers,

Michael


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