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author | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2015-02-12 23:05:37 +0000 |
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committer | Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> | 2017-02-20 22:04:52 +0100 |
commit | 0a62a5c401cf5b4e79e8290e46ce36f4c6dd08da (patch) | |
tree | d0a47ee621f3d5c49e13137cf23ca670b1786ca9 /ChangeLog | |
parent | a0b2d5b252477b6bc374390c14c3c8ed6aae420c (diff) | |
download | glibc-release/2.19/master.tar.gz |
Fix powerpc software sqrt (bug 17964).release/2.19/master
As Adhemerval noted in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-01/msg00451.html>, the
powerpc sqrt implementation for when _ARCH_PPCSQ is not defined is
inaccurate in some cases.
The problem is that this code relies on fused multiply-add, and relies
on the compiler contracting a * b + c to get a fused operation. But
sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/Makefile disables contraction for e_sqrt.c,
because the implementation in that directory relies on *not* having
contracted operations.
While it would be possible to arrange makefiles so that an earlier
sysdeps directory can disable the setting in
sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/Makefile, it seems a lot cleaner to make the
dependence on fused operations explicit in the .c file. GCC 4.6
introduced support for __builtin_fma on powerpc and other
architectures with such instructions, so we can rely on that; this
patch duly makes the code use __builtin_fma for all such fused
operations.
Tested for powerpc32 (hard float).
2015-02-12 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
[BZ #17964]
* sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/e_sqrt.c (__slow_ieee754_sqrt): Use
__builtin_fma instead of relying on contraction of a * b + c.
(cherry picked from commit e8bd5286c68bc35be3b41e94c15c4387dcb3bec9)
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2015-02-12 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> + + [BZ #17964] + * sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/e_sqrt.c (__slow_ieee754_sqrt): Use + __builtin_fma instead of relying on contraction of a * b + c. + 2015-01-28 Adhemerval Zanellla <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [BZ #16576] |