In non-default rounding modes, tgamma can be slightly less accurate
than permitted by glibc's accuracy goals.
Part of the problem is error accumulation, addressed in this patch by
setting round-to-nearest for internal computations. However, there
was also a bug in the code dealing with computing pow (x + n, x + n)
where x + n is not exactly representable, providing another source of
error even in round-to-nearest mode; it was necessary to address both
bugs to get errors for all testcases within glibc's accuracy goals.
Given this second fix, accuracy in round-to-nearest mode is also
improved (hence regeneration of ulps for tgamma should be from scratch
- truncate libm-test-ulps or at least remove existing tgamma entries -
so that the expected ulps can be reduced).
Some additional complications also arose. Certain tgamma tests should
strictly, according to IEEE semantics, overflow or not depending on
the rounding mode; this is beyond the scope of glibc's accuracy goals
for any function without exactly-determined results, but
gen-auto-libm-tests doesn't handle being lax there as it does for
underflow. (libm-test.inc also doesn't handle being lax about whether
the result in cases very close to the overflow threshold is infinity
or a finite value close to overflow, but that doesn't cause problems
in this case though I've seen it cause problems with random test
generation for some functions.) Thus, spurious-overflow markings,
with a comment, are added to auto-libm-test-in (no bug in Bugzilla
because the issue is with the testsuite, not a user-visible bug in
glibc). And on x86, after the patch I saw ERANGE issues as previously
reported by Carlos (see my commentary in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-01/msg00485.html>), which
needed addressing by ensuring excess range and precision were
eliminated at various points if FLT_EVAL_METHOD != 0.
I also noticed and fixed a cosmetic issue where 1.0f was used in long
double functions and should have been 1.0L.
This completes the move of all functions to testing in all rounding
modes with ALL_RM_TEST, so gen-libm-have-vector-test.sh is updated to
remove the workaround for some functions not using ALL_RM_TEST.
Tested for x86_64, x86, mips64 and powerpc.
[BZ #18613]
* sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_gamma_r.c (gamma_positive): Take log of
X_ADJ not X when adjusting exponent.
(__ieee754_gamma_r): Do intermediate computations in
round-to-nearest then adjust overflowing and underflowing results
as needed.
* sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/e_gammaf_r.c (gammaf_positive): Take log
of X_ADJ not X when adjusting exponent.
(__ieee754_gammaf_r): Do intermediate computations in
round-to-nearest then adjust overflowing and underflowing results
as needed.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128/e_gammal_r.c (gammal_positive): Take
log of X_ADJ not X when adjusting exponent.
(__ieee754_gammal_r): Do intermediate computations in
round-to-nearest then adjust overflowing and underflowing results
as needed. Use 1.0L not 1.0f as numerator of division.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128ibm/e_gammal_r.c (gammal_positive): Take
log of X_ADJ not X when adjusting exponent.
(__ieee754_gammal_r): Do intermediate computations in
round-to-nearest then adjust overflowing and underflowing results
as needed. Use 1.0L not 1.0f as numerator of division.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/e_gammal_r.c (gammal_positive): Take log
of X_ADJ not X when adjusting exponent.
(__ieee754_gammal_r): Do intermediate computations in
round-to-nearest then adjust overflowing and underflowing results
as needed. Use 1.0L not 1.0f as numerator of division.
* math/libm-test.inc (tgamma_test_data): Remove one test. Moved
to auto-libm-test-in.
(tgamma_test): Use ALL_RM_TEST.
* math/auto-libm-test-in: Add one test of tgamma. Mark some other
tests of tgamma with spurious-overflow.
* math/auto-libm-test-out: Regenerated.
* math/gen-libm-have-vector-test.sh: Do not check for START.
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/libm-test-ulps: Update.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/libm-test-ulps: Likewise.
2001-07-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* manual/argp.texi: Remove ignored LGPL copyright notice; it's
not appropriate for documentation anyway.
* manual/libc-texinfo.sh: "Library General Public License" ->
"Lesser General Public License".
2001-07-06 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* All files under GPL/LGPL version 2: Place under LGPL version
2.1.
