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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix remainder calculating bug in single floating point
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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:22:25 -0600
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On Jan 6, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Liu Yu wrote:

> This bug exists in the emulation of floating point division for  
> powerpc.
>
> The original code cannot count the remainder correctly.
> I can provide a test case to trigger this bug.
> When use fdiv to count 1.1754941e-38f / 0.9999999f,
> the result is expected to be 1.175494e-38f,
> but we will get 1.174921e-38f in the original case.
>
> Comments are always welcomed!

can you provide the test case that shows the error.

- k