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Re: How do we test the IBM ieee754 math library?

From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
To: moshier at moshier dot ne dot mediaone dot net
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 23:22:23 -0800
Subject: Re: How do we test the IBM ieee754 math library?
References: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0111241933520.13523-100000@moshier.ne.mediaone.net>

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 07:45:49PM -0500, Stephen L Moshier wrote:
> 
> Removing the files from the sysdeps/i386/fpu directory prevents them
> from being used.

Which files to remove? I tried. I got many math test failures which
don't exist in the asm version.

> 
> I have run tests of the IBM routines on a sparcstation,
> and just now repeated them on an IBM PC with identical results.
> That's a good sign, though the tests were not exhaustive by any

Have you compared the IBM libm on x86 against the asm version on x86?
How are the results of "make check" in glibc?

H.J.

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