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authorSzabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>2018-07-03 13:05:31 +0100
committerCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2018-07-06 10:29:01 +0200
commit2805b07fa1f54ef001c2ce78618e8efc87155232 (patch)
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Fix large ulp error in pow without fma very near 1.0
The !HAVE_FAST_FMA code path split r = z/c - 1 into r = rhi + rlo such that when z = 1-tiny and c = 1 then rlo and rhi could have much larger magnitude than r which later caused large rounding errors. So do a nearest rounding instead of truncation at the split. In newlib with default settings this was observable on some arm targets that enable the new math code but has no fma.
Diffstat (limited to 'newlib/libm')
-rw-r--r--newlib/libm/common/pow.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/newlib/libm/common/pow.c b/newlib/libm/common/pow.c
index 11964e3..a5504e5 100644
--- a/newlib/libm/common/pow.c
+++ b/newlib/libm/common/pow.c
@@ -79,11 +79,13 @@ log_inline (uint64_t ix, double_t *tail)
logc = T[i].logc;
logctail = T[i].logctail;
- /* r = z/c - 1, arranged to be exact. */
+ /* Note: 1/c is j/N or j/N/2 where j is an integer in [N,2N) and
+ |z/c - 1| < 1/N, so r = z/c - 1 is exactly representible. */
#if HAVE_FAST_FMA
r = fma (z, invc, -1.0);
#else
- double_t zhi = asdouble (iz & (-1ULL << 32));
+ /* Split z such that rhi, rlo and rhi*rhi are exact and |rlo| <= |r|. */
+ double_t zhi = asdouble ((iz + (1ULL << 31)) & (-1ULL << 32));
double_t zlo = z - zhi;
double_t rhi = zhi * invc - 1.0;
double_t rlo = zlo * invc;