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Re: [PATCH] Update sparc ULPs.


From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:21:23 +0000

> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> That's all fine and well, but I should note that the float versions of
>> these routines use the same exact value of tiny as the double ones.
> 
> It's safe (other than possibly getting spurious underflows in some cases) 
> to use a value that's smaller than necessary (e.g. using a double value in 
> a float function), but not to use one that's too large (e.g. using a 
> double value in a long double function).

Fair enough.

I'll adjust the float value to be more accurate and adjust my
long-double variant as well.

Thanks.


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