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Re: "1 + -1" when rounding to -inf


From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 21:22:07 +0200

> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
> 
>> I wrote a simple test program and, with FE_DOWNWARD, the sequence is:
>>
>> -1 + 1 == -0.0L
>>
>> -1L / -0.0L == INF
> 
> Both are correct (the latter is independent of the rounding direction).

The test case is expecting -INF.

For all other rounding modes, for long double, log1p does return -INF.


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