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Re: incorrect result from cos on non-x86 platform


Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:

> Ulrich Drepper writes:
>
>> Philip Blundell wrote:
>> > A Debian user reported that running this program on PowerPC or ARM,
>> > using glibc 2.3.1:
>> 
>> I hope you verified that.
>> 
>> I passed the report on to the authors since I cannot see anything
>> oviously wrong.
>
> It happens on my powerbook (PowerPC laptop) running Debian.
> Interestingly, it only happens for the one particular binary value:
> 0x3fe9a92cdb25a2e1, which is 0.80190127184058835.  Other binary values
> in the vicinity don't provoke the bug.

Can somebody please make a patch for math/libm-test.inc adding this
value, so that we have a regression test for it?

Thanks,
Andreas
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 Andreas Jaeger
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