Re: FPU test on RedHat7.1

[Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>]

"H . J . Lu" wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 03:54:31PM +0100, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> > The file sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_remainder.c seems to have changed since
> > glibc-2.2.2.
> > I have attached the glibc-2.2.2 remainder file, which seems to work
> > better.
> >
>
> I believe it is a MIPS FPU related issue. glibc tries to do
>
> 1.7976931348623157e+308 - 8.5720688574901386e+301 * 2097152
>
> and expects -1.9958403095e+292. However, on mips, I got -inf. Could you
> please look into it?

I believe this is ok, 8.5720688574901386e+301 * 2097152 is greater than
1.7976931348623157e+308 (which is the highest floating point number you can
represent).
So 1.7976931348623157e+308 - 8.5720688574901386e+301 * 2097152 do give -Inf on
(I guess) all other architectures than i386, which have a double extended (80
bit / 64 bit mantisse) precision.

I have tried the same calculation on a Sun (Sparc) and it also gives -Inf.
So I guess the problem is in the e_remainder function.


>
> Thanks.
>
> H.J.
>
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