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Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:20:58 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT gotadsl DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Fwd: isnanf et al
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Hello.

Kbwms AT aol DOT com wrote:
> Rich:
> 
> Re: RESEND: Re: e_pow.c
> 
> In a message dated 12/20/2003 10:55:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> rich AT phekda DOT gotadsl DOT co DOT uk writes:
> 
>> Hello.
>>
>> Kbwms AT aol DOT com wrote:
>> >Kudos to the person who put a note in a patch for e_pow.c concerning
>> >cases where, for z=pow(x,y), when x is very near 1 and y is very large,
>> >z would vanish.  It prompted me to create test cases for all three
>> >floating point precisions.  The same problem existed for the float
>> >version and was easily fixed.
>> >
>> >For testing the double precision case, the parameters are:
>> >
>> >x = 1-DBL_EPSILON
>> >y = log(DBL_MIN)/log(1-DBL_EPSILON)
>>
>> Could you send a patch for DJGPP 2.04, please?
>>
>> Thanks, bye, Rich =]
> 
> 
> 
> Until the problem described in the forwarded email is resolved, no 
> changes to sources in libm will be submitted.  The problem involves the 
> use of macros in libm sources of type float that have the same names as 
> functions in libm.a.  My proposal is to eliminate the use of the macros.
[snip]

You included a patch in the mail that you forwarded. But I think we need 
to undo the type-punning as well. Can you send a patch to fix both those 
things, please, if you have one?

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/ ]

"You can't evaluate a man by logic alone."
   -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", Star Trek