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Re: RFC: libm-test.inc with more accurate values
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
- Cc: aj at suse dot de, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 06 Dec 2001 12:32:10 -0800
- Subject: Re: RFC: libm-test.inc with more accurate values
- References: <ho4rn4jtsa.fsf@gee.suse.de> <200112062015.MAA25905@geoffk.org>
- Reply-to: drepper at redhat dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:
> These would be good as additional tests, but do we really want a libm
> testsuite where only the first few bits of each input value are ever
> set?
I see this as a beginning. You are right, we have to get all
precisions tested. It's not hard to construct the numbers and using a
full precision math library you can construct the results. This can
(and probably should) be automated.
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