In 128-bit IBM long double the precision of the type
decreases as you approach subnormal numbers, equaling
that of a double for subnormal numbers. Therefore
adjust the computation in ulp to use 2^(MIN_EXP - MANT_DIG)
which is correct for FP_SUBNORMAL for all types.
Resolves: #15465
The program name may be unavailable if the user application tampers
with argc and argv[]. Some parts of the dynamic linker caters for
this while others don't, so this patch consolidates the check and
fallback into a single macro and updates all users.
Added descriptive titles to the Belarusian,
English (American), and Chinese (simplified)
po/pot files.
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2013-05-28 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* po/be.po: Add descriptive title.
* po/zh_CN.po: Likewise.
* po/header.pot: Likewise.
When mkstemp fails, the error message the user gets back is:
cannot create temporary file: No such file or directory
That isn't terribly useful in figuring out why, so include the full
filename we tried to create in the error output.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
It is the magnitude of the return value which lies
in [0.5, 1), not the return value itself.
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2013-05-28 Ben North <ben@redfrontdoor.org>
* manual/arith.texi (frexp): It is the magnitude of the return
value which lies in [0.5, 1), not the return value itself.
The current value used for ulp near zero is wrong,
and this commit fixes it such that ulp(0) is the smallest
subnormal value nearest to zero, which makes the most
sense for testing values near zero. Note that this is not
what Java does; they use the nearest normal value, which
is less accurate than what we want for glibc. Note that
there is no correct implementation of ulp since there
is no strict mathmatical definition that is accepted by
all groups using IEEE 754.
Previously with the large ulp values near zero there
were tests that previously passed, but were in fact
billions of ulp away from the precise answer. With this
commit we now need to disable one of the cpow tests which
is revealed to be inaccurate (bug 14473).
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2013-05-24 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* math/libm-test.inc (MAX_EXP): Define.
(ULPDIFF): Define.
(ulp): New function.
(check_float_internal): Use ULPDIFF.
(cpow_test): Disable failing test.
(check_ulp): Test ulp() implemetnation.
(main): Call check_ulp before starting tests.
The existing test avoided passing -mcmodel=large if the compiler didn't
support it. However, we need to test not just the compiler support, but
also the toolchain (as and ld) support, so make the test more complete.
In addition, we have to avoid using the hwN_plt() assembly operators if
that support is missing, so guard the uses with #ifdef NO_PLT_PCREL.
This allows us to properly build glibc with the current community
binutils, which doesn't yet have the PC-relative PLT operator support.
The -mcmodel=large support is in gcc 4.8, but the toolchain support
won't be present in the community until binutils 2.24.
Fixes 15381.
Using wide character function is on byte oriented memstream is undefined
behaviour. This behaviour was masked by not initializing wide struct
info. We now initialize it to cause a predictable crash.
In dl-hwcaps.c the comment read that rounding was done
to ElfW(Addr), but it's actually rounded to ElfW(Word).
In ldconfig.c we make each comment a sentence and
mention that the "tls" pseudo-hwcap is just for legacy
installations where TLS was optional.
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2013-05-22 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* elf/ldconfig.c (is_hwcap_platform): Make comments full setences.
(main): Mention "tls" pseudo-hwcap is legacy.
* elf/dl-hwcaps.c (_dl_important_hwcaps): Correct rounding comment.
