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Re: Arch maintainers: please regenerate libm-test-ulps for 2.19


"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> The errors for fma indicate a (presumably SH-specific) bug (which should 
> be filed in Bugzilla before investigating it).
> 
> Those for float
> 
> +Test "fma (0x1.7ff8p+13, 0x1.000002p+0, 0x1.ffffp-24)":
> +float: 1
> +ifloat: 1
> 
> are undoubtedly the easiest to investigate.  First make sure that the case 
> in sysdeps/sh/s_fmaf.c that includes sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/s_fmaf.c is 
> indeed the one being used.  Then disassemble fmaf and see if all the 
> operations are in the right order - nothing's been scheduled across a call 
> to feholdexcept / fesetround / feupdateenv / fetestexcept.  If there's a 
> scheduling problem, we can work out how to prevent it, otherwise it's 
> likely to be a problem with one of those <fenv.h> functions.

I'll look into it.  Thanks for your suggestion.

Regards,
	kaz


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