Commit f320fefc authored by Tue Ly's avatar Tue Ly
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[libc][math] Implement erff function correctly rounded to all rounding modes.

Implement correctly rounded `erff` functions.

For `x >= 4`, `erff(x) = 1` for `FE_TONEAREST` or `FE_UPWARD`, `0x1.ffffep-1` for `FE_DOWNWARD` or `FE_TOWARDZERO`.

For `0 <= x < 4`, we divide into 32 sub-intervals of length `1/8`, and use a degree-15 odd polynomial to approximate `erff(x)` in each sub-interval:
```
  erff(x) ~ x * (c0 + c1 * x^2 + c2 * x^4 + ... + c7 * x^14).
```

For `x < 0`, we can use the same formula as above, since the odd part is factored out.

Performance tested with `perf.sh` tool from the CORE-MATH project on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X:

Reciprocal throughput (clock cycles / op)
```
$ ./perf.sh erff --path2
GNU libc version: 2.35
GNU libc release: stable
-- CORE-MATH reciprocal throughput --  with -march=native      (with FMA instructions)
[####################] 100 %
Ntrial = 20 ; Min = 11.790 + 0.182 clc/call; Median-Min = 0.154 clc/call; Max = 12.255 clc/call;
-- CORE-MATH reciprocal throughput --  with -marc...
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