From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g1IMdQI13613 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:39:26 -0800 Received: from cygnus.com (runyon.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.230.5]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g1IMdN913610 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:39:23 -0800 Received: from myware.mynet (fiendish.cygnus.com [205.180.231.146]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA25095; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:39:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from drepper@localhost) by myware.mynet (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1ILd4829506; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:39:04 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: myware.mynet: drepper set sender to drepper@redhat.com using -f To: moshier@moshier.net Cc: Geoff Keating , fxzhang@ict.ac.cn, , Subject: Re: math broken on mips References: Reply-To: drepper@redhat.com (Ulrich Drepper) X-fingerprint: BE 3B 21 04 BC 77 AC F0 61 92 E4 CB AC DD B9 5A X-fingerprint: e6:49:07:36:9a:0d:b7:ba:b5:e9:06:f3:e7:e7:08:4a From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 18 Feb 2002 13:39:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Stephen L Moshier writes: > Does the glibc documentation define it? No version of any math library reliably worked with anything but round-to-nearest. Only functions which were implemented using integer operations were immune and this set varied among different platforms. It's not written down but was always said. If somebody wants to add it to the documentation s/he can write something up. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------ From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: math broken on mips References: Reply-To: drepper@redhat.com (Ulrich Drepper) From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 18 Feb 2002 13:39:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com To: moshier@moshier.net Cc: Geoff Keating , fxzhang@ict.ac.cn, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <20020218213904.5cHqr9Dd06KSoMMOfyE2TA6-z0u3EACKOjAbX1DryBE@z> Stephen L Moshier writes: > Does the glibc documentation define it? No version of any math library reliably worked with anything but round-to-nearest. Only functions which were implemented using integer operations were immune and this set varied among different platforms. It's not written down but was always said. If somebody wants to add it to the documentation s/he can write something up. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------