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Re: newlib?: pow function can produce incorrect results.
- From: "Cary R." <cygcary at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:52:53 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: newlib?: pow function can produce incorrect results.
> gcc -fno-builtin ./pow-error.c
Yes -fno-builtin certainly makes the results
consistent, but I would consider this result slightly
less correct.
> Unless the function call is optimized away.
Hmm, I guess I didn't think something as complicated
as pow would get optimized away. Thanks for the
insight! I also need to remember to look at the
assembly code.
> Are you only seeking insight, or is there a
> particular problem you want to solve?
Mostly insight. These are certainly extreme limits and
if they are wrong it's not a problem for what I'm
working on. The reason I even found them is that I try
to test my code at all the weird limits to make sure
things break gracefully and as expected. In this case
I got inconstant results that didn't match my
expectations. It would be nice if this could be made
more compliant, but I also realize that it's not
anyones job to do that.
Thanks for the replies,
Cary
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