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From: N8TM AT aol DOT com
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:27:05 EDT
Subject: libm bugs
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I've been testing the built-in math library in cygwin-b20.1 along with my 
port of the mathinline.h from glibc-2.1. 
(ftp://members.aol.com/n8tm/llibm.tgz).  Aside from slowness, the standard 
library gives fairly good results.  I mention a few exceptions:

asin[fd] produce old-fashioned 0. results rather than NaN when argument is 
out of range
asinf() does not carry full precision in range (.75,1)
expf() overflows to Inf for arguments <= log(FLT_MAX)
log[fd](-2) = -Inf (should be NaN)

and, of course, long doubles outside the range of doubles are formatted as 
Inf by the sprintf() functions.

Tim
tprince AT computer DOT org

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