Mark Murray graciously provided access to an aarch64 system
to test the ld128 implementations. This patch address
* Misuses of copysignl() in sinpil() and tanpil().
* Redo the splitting of argument 'x' into an integer part and
remainder. The remainder must satify 0 <= r < 1.
* Update the reduction of the integer part to something that can
easily be seen as even or odd, e.g., sin(pi*x) = (-1)^n*sin(pi*r)
with n <= 2^112 and we an reduce n by subtracting integer powers
of 2.
* In s_cospil.c, fix typos where 'x' is used where 'ax', the
remainder, is required.
* In tanpil(), fix the use of an uninitialized variable, ax = fabsl(ax),
ax should be x in fabsl().
One item of note, in the limited tested on aarch64, the max ULP
for sinpil() and cospil() were less than 1.1 ULP, which is higher
that the desired max ULP less than 1. This was traced to the
kernel for cosl() in the fundamental interval [0,pi/4].
The coefficients in the minmax polynomial likely need refinement.
PR: 218514
MFC after: 1 week
Both IEEE-754 2008 and ISO/IEC TS 18661-4 define the half-cycle
trignometric functions cospi, sinpi, and tanpi. The attached
patch implements cospi[fl], sinpi[fl], and tanpi[fl]. Limited
testing on the cospi and sinpi reveal a max ULP less than 0.89;
while tanpi is more problematic with a max ULP less than 2.01
in the interval [0,0.5]. The algorithms used in these functions
are documented in {ks}_cospi.c, {ks}_sinpi.c, and s_tanpi.c.
Note. I no longer have access to a system with ld128 and
adequate support to compile and test the ld128 implementations
of these functions. Given the almost complete lack of input from
others on improvements to libm, I doubt that anyone cares. If
someone does care, the ld128 files contain a number of FIXME comments,
and in particular, while the polynomial coefficients are given
I did not update the polynomial algorithms to properly use the
coefficients.
PR: 218514
MFC after: 2 weeks
