C/C++) in exp(3), expf(3), expm1(3) and expm1f(3) during intermediate
computations that compute the IEEE-754 bit pattern for |2**k| for
integer |k|.
The implementations of exp(3), expf(3), expm1(3) and expm1f(3) need to
compute IEEE-754 bit patterns for 2**k in certain places. (k is an
integer and 2**k is exactly representable in IEEE-754.)
Currently they do things like 0x3FF0'0000+(k<<20), which is to say they
take the bit pattern representing 1 and then add directly to the
exponent field to get the desired power of two. This is fine when k is
non-negative.
But when k<0 (and certain classes of input trigger this), this
left-shifts a negative number -- an operation with undefined behavior in
C and C++.
The desired semantics can be achieved by instead adding the
possibly-negative k to the IEEE-754 exponent bias to get the desired
exponent field, _then_ shifting that into its proper overall position.
(Note that in case of s_expm1.c and s_expm1f.c, there are SET_HIGH_WORD
and SET_FLOAT_WORD uses further down in each of these files that perform
shift operations involving k, but by these points k's range has been
restricted to 2 < k <= 56, and the shift operations under those
circumstances can't do anything that would be UB.)
Submitted by: Jeff Walden, https://github.com/jswalden
Obtained from: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/411
Obtained from: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/412
MFC after: 3 days
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