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- From: dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox)
- Subject: Re: Bug in mathlib (i.e. -lfpu)
- Message-ID: <fXxRySh@quack.sac.ca.us>
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- References: <1993Jan4.213529.23355@cm.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 05:15:05 UTC
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- In article <1993Jan4.213529.23355@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) writes:
- >I was getting totally different results from a program when compiled
- >with the mathlib routines so I thought I'd track down the problem.
- >
- >Anyway, pow seems to mess up the results of expressions when the
- >numerator of the expression is a function and pow is the denominator.
- >I'll try and track down the cause tomorrow (It's getting late here).
- >
- >Below is a test program which shows the problem. Compile it with the
- >stock -lm and with -lfpu and note the difference.
-
- I think you might have problems with the posted code since it uses
- float arithmetic, and you are using -lfpu which is for type double
- only. You should use the -lcfpu library, as that is the combined
- float/double math library.
-
- I didn't experience a problem - I got 0.50000 as the answer whether
- I used the combined mathlib or the double-only mathlib. However, the
- code only runs through two times instead of five (as the for() loop
- suggests) - could the bug screw up the loop variable?
-
- [ a few seconds later]
-
- It does on my system. I just went to another virtual console and
- compiled for libm.a - it runs five iterations.
-
- Also, this could explain the problems with ghostscript. Earlier today,
- I tried recompiling it using -lcfpu and got a floating point exception.
- It works fine with libm.a.
-
- Interestingly, ephem works nicely with -lfpu. It must not use the
- pow() function, but it does use trig functions rather heavily. (Using
- mathlib does greatly speed this program, BTW.)
-
- If you find the bug, please post it, and I'll recompile ghostscript with
- the fixed libmath.
-
- --
- David Fox
- dfox@quack.sac.ca.us
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