newlib?: pow function can produce incorrect results.

Lev Bishop lev.bishop@gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 02:14:00 GMT 2007


On 4/23/07, Dave Korn  wrote:
> On 24 April 2007 00:53, Cary R. wrote:
>
> > I had some more time to look into this and when the
> > simple C program I mentioned earlier uses variables
> > like the other program, incorrect results are
> > produced. I have attached this C/C++ program. I
> > certainly don't understand what is going on. I would
> > have expected pow to be pass-by value which should
> > make the two calls identical from a system standpoint,
> > but the results imply something different. Any
> > suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>   The notorious PR323.

Nah, in this case it's just that gcc's __builtin_pow() is more
standards-compliant than newlib's pow().

L

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/



More information about the Cygwin mailing list