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Re: Ideas for rewrite of libm-test

To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at ozemail dot com dot au>
Subject: Re: Ideas for rewrite of libm-test
From: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:08:54 -0700
Cc: Philip dot Blundell at pobox dot com, aj at suse dot de, libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <E11TXfW-0000ZJ-00@kings-cross.london.uk.eu.org> <199909212158.HAA00728@gluttony.geoffk.wattle.id.au>

On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 07:58:59AM +1000, Geoff Keating wrote:
> I think sparc and ARM are similar, they're both normal
> IEEE machines.  For Alpha, it should also be similar enough that the
> calculated margins will do---certainly, you want to know if not.

Supposing that you've compiled with -mieee, and sysdeps/alpha/Makefile
turns that on, Alpha should be IEEE compliant modulo Inexact exceptions.
(You can use -mieee-inexact for that, but it's soooo slow...)

Discrepencies may be the result of kernel bugs.

r~

References:
- Re: Ideas for rewrite of libm-test
  - From: Philip Blundell
- Re: Ideas for rewrite of libm-test
  - From: Geoff Keating

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