as a fairly faithful implementation of the algorithm found in
PTP Tang, "Table-driven implementation of the Expm1 function
in IEEE floating-point arithmetic," ACM Trans. Math. Soft., 18,
211-222 (1992).
Over the last 18-24 months, the code has under gone significant
optimization and testing.
Reviewed by: bde
Obtained from: bde (most of the optimizations)
format. These implementations are based on
PTP Tang, "Table-driven implementation of the exponential function
in IEEE floating-point arithmetic," ACM Trans. Math. Soft., 15,
144-157 (1989).
PR: standards/152415
Submitted by: kargl
Reviewed by: bde, das
Approved by: das (mentor)
to be the same as -ragged in the current implementation) to
-ragged. With mdocNG, -filled displays produce the correct
output, formatted and justified to both margins.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
Corrected some bogus cross references to man pages that we don't/won't
have and either deleted them, or found a more appropriate man page
that we do have. Various other minor changes to silence manck.
Manck is currently down to about 200 lines of errors, down from
the 500 - 600+ when I started all this.
-- Begin comments from J.T. Conklin:
The most significant improvement is the addition of "float" versions
of the math functions that take float arguments, return floats, and do
all operations in floating point. This doesn't help (performance)
much on the i386, but they are still nice to have.
The float versions were orginally done by Cygnus' Ian Taylor when
fdlibm was integrated into the libm we support for embedded systems.
I gave Ian a copy of my libm as a starting point since I had already
fixed a lot of bugs & problems in Sun's original code. After he was
done, I cleaned it up a bit and integrated the changes back into my
libm.
-- End comments
Reviewed by: jkh
Submitted by: jtc
