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Re: [PATCH 1/2] sparc: remove ceil, floor, trunc sparc specific implementations


On 2016-08-01 14:44, David Miller wrote:
> From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
> Date: Mon,  1 Aug 2016 15:24:22 +0200
> 
> > The ceil, floor and trunc functions on sparc do not fully follow the
> > standard and trigger an inexact exception when presented a value which
> > is not an integer. Since glibc 2.24 this causes a few tests to fail,
> > for instance:
> 
> Carlos, this specific patch fixes most of the math failures on sparc,
> could we get this into the release?

I think you should ask Adhemerval instead.

> Aurelien, it looks like we have the same exact issue with nearbyint on
> sparc, right?

I don't see the issue on nearbyint here. What is the issue exactly?

> And that leaves the fdim failures, which are probably a similar
> problem.

Yes, I am currently working on the fdim issue, to see if we should apply
the same strategy or fix it.

Aurelien

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