Re: [PATCH] Fix hypotf missing mask in hi+lo decomposition

Corinna Vinschen via Newlib <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:16:03 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mar 19 16:34, Fabian Schriever wrote:
> Add the missing mask for the decomposition of hi+lo which caused some
> errors of 1-2 ULP.
> 
> This change is taken over from FreeBSD:
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/95436ce20dab5a34ba46373410b96411b1734578
> 
> Additionally I've removed some variable assignments which were never
> read before being overwritten again in the next 2 lines.
> ---
>  newlib/libm/math/ef_hypot.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/newlib/libm/math/ef_hypot.c b/newlib/libm/math/ef_hypot.c
> index 9368eb41c..a70c92b88 100644
> --- a/newlib/libm/math/ef_hypot.c
> +++ b/newlib/libm/math/ef_hypot.c
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
>  	ha &= 0x7fffffffL;
>  	GET_FLOAT_WORD(hb,y);
>  	hb &= 0x7fffffffL;
> -	if(hb > ha) {a=y;b=x;j=ha; ha=hb;hb=j;} else {a=x;b=y;}
> +	if(hb > ha) { j = ha; ha = hb; hb = j; }
>  	SET_FLOAT_WORD(a,ha);	/* a <- |a| */
>  	SET_FLOAT_WORD(b,hb);	/* b <- |b| */
>  	if((ha-hb)>0xf000000L) {return a+b;} /* x/y > 2**30 */
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
>  	    a  = a+a;
>  	    SET_FLOAT_WORD(y1,hb&0xfffff000L);
>  	    y2 = b - y1;
> -	    SET_FLOAT_WORD(t1,ha+0x00800000L);
> +	    SET_FLOAT_WORD(t1,(ha+0x00800000L)&0xfffff000UL);
>  	    t2 = a - t1;
>  	    w  = __ieee754_sqrtf(t1*y1-(w*(-w)-(t1*y2+t2*b)));
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.24.1.windows.2
> 

Pushed.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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