adds two new directories in msun: ld80 and ld128. These are for
long double functions specific to the 80-bit long double format
used on x86-derived architectures, and the 128-bit format used on
sparc64, respectively.
hundreds of similar aliasing bugs, but all except this one seem to have
been fixed by Cygnus and/or NetBSD before the modified version of fdlibm
was imported into FreeBSD in 1994.
PR: standards/113147
Submitted by: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
involving moving the check for x == 0). The savings in cycles are
smaller for cbrtf() than for cbrt(), and positive in all measured cases
with gcc-3.4.4, but still very machine/compiler-dependent.
Warning, after symbol versioning is enabled, going back is not easy
(use WITHOUT_SYMVER at your own risk).
Change the default thread library to libthr.
There most likely still needs to be a version bump for at least the
thread libraries. If necessary, this will happen later.
that ints have >= 31 value bits elsewhere. s/int/int32_t/ seems to
have been done too globally for all other files in msun/src before
msun/ was imported into FreeBSD.
Minor fixes in comments.
e_lgamma_r.c:
Describe special cases in more detail:
- exception for lgamma(0) and lgamma(neg.integer)
- lgamma(-Inf) = Inf. This is wrong but is required by C99 Annex F. I
hope to change this.
(1) tgamma(-Inf) returned +Inf and failed to raise any exception, but
should always have raised an exception, and should behave like
tgamma(negative integer).
(2) tgamma(negative integer) returned +Inf and raised divide-by-zero,
but should return NaN and raise "invalid" on any IEEEish system.
(3) About half of the 2**52 negative intgers between -2**53 and -2**52
were misclassified as non-integers by using floor(x + 0.5) to round
to nearest, so tgamma(x) was wrong (+-0 instead of +Inf and now NaN)
on these args. The floor() expression is hard to use since rounding
of (x + 0.5) may give x or x + 1, depending on |x| and the current
rounding mode. The fixed version uses ceil(x) to classify x before
operating on x and ends up being more efficient since ceil(x) is
needed anyway.
(4) On at least the problematic args in (3), tgamma() raised a spurious
inexact.
(5) tgamma(large positive) raised divide-by-zero but should raise overflow.
(6) tgamma(+Inf) raised divide-by-zero but should not raise any exception.
(7) Raise inexact for tiny |x| in a way that has some chance of not being
optimized away.
The fix for (5) and (6), and probably for (2), also prevents -O optimizing
away the exception.
PR: 112180 (2)
Standards: Annex F in C99 (IEC 60559 binding) requires (1), (2) and (6).
values in more detail, and change the style of this comment to be closer
to fdlibm and C99:
- tgamma(-Inf) was undocumented and is wrong (+Inf, should be NaN)
- tgamma(negative integer) is as intended (+Inf) but not best for IEEE-754
(NaN)
- tgamma(-0) was documented as being wrong (+Inf) but was correct (-Inf)
- documentation of setting of exceptions (overflow, etc.) was more
complete here than in most of libm, but was further from matching
the actual setting than in most of libm, due to various bugs here
(primarily, always evaluating +Inf one/zero and getting unwanted
divide-by-zero exceptions from this). Now the actual behaviour with
gcc -O0 is documented. Optimization still breaks setting of exceptions
all over libm, so nothing can depend on this working.
- tgamma(NaN)'s exception was documented as being wrong (invalid) but was
correct (no exception with IEEEish NaNs).
Finish (?) rev.1.5. gamma was not renamed to tgamma in one place.
Finish (?) rev.1.6. errno.h was not completely removed.
Details: As a side-effect of restoring a saved FP environment,
fesetenv() overwrites the tag word, which indicates which i387
registers are in use. Normally this isn't a problem because
the calling convention requires the register stack to be empty
on function entry and exit. However, fesetenv() is inlined, so we
need to tell gcc explicitly that the i387 registers get clobbered.
PR: 85101
In e_log.c, there was just a off-by-1 (1 ulp) error in the comment
about the threshold. The precision of the threshold is unimportant,
but the magic numbers in the code are easier to understand when the
threshold is described precisely.
In e_logf.c, mistranslation of the magic numbers gave an off-by-1
(1 * 16 ulps) error in the intended negative bound for the threshold
and an off-by-7 (7 * 16 ulps) error in the intended positive bound for
the threshold, and the intended bounds were not translated from the
double precision bounds so they were unnecessarily small by a factor
of about 2048.
The optimization of using the simple Taylor approximation for args
near a power of 2 is dubious since it only applies to a relatively
small proportion of args, but if it is done then doing it 2048 times
as often _may_ be more efficient. (My benchmarks show unexplained
dependencies on the data that increase with further optimizations
in this area.)
2**-28 as a side effect, by merging with the float precision version
of tanh() and the double precision version of sinh().
For tiny x, tanh(x) ~= x, and we used the expression x*(one+x) to
return this value (x) and set the inexact flag iff x != 0. This
doesn't work on ia64 since gcc -O does the dubious optimization
x*(one+x) = x+x*x so as to use fma, so the sign of -0.0 was lost.
Instead, handle tiny x in the same as sinh(), although this is imperfect:
- return x directly and set the inexact flag in a less efficient way.
- increased the threshold for non-tinyness from 2**-55 to 2**-28 so that
many more cases are optimized than are pessimized.
Updated some comments and fixed bugs in others (ranges for half-open
intervals mostly had the open end backwards, and there were nearby style
bugs).
functions are only for compatibility with obsolete standards. They
shouldn't be used, so they shouldn't be optimized. Use the generic
versions instead.
This fixes scalbf() as a side effect. The optimized asm version left
garbage on the FP stack. I fixed the corresponding bug in the optimized
asm scalb() and scalbn() in 1996. NetBSD fixed it in scalb(), scalbn()
and scalbnf() in 1999 but missed fixing it in scalbf(). Then in 2005
the bug was reimplemented in FreeBSD by importing NetBSD's scalbf().
The generic versions have slightly different error handling:
- the asm versions blindly round the second parameter to a (floating
point) integer and proceed, while the generic versions return NaN
if this rounding changes the value. POSIX permits both behaviours
(these functions are XSI extensions and the behaviour for a bogus
non-integral second parameter is unspecified). Apart from this
and the bug in scalbf(), the behaviour of the generic versions seems
to be identical. (I only exhusatively tested
generic_scalbf(1.0F, anyfloat) == asm_scalb(1.0F, anyfloat). This
covers many representative corner cases involving NaNs and Infs but
doesn't test exception flags. The brokenness of scalbf() showed up
as weird behaviour after testing just 7 integer cases sequentially.)
to scalbf(), but ldexpf() cannot be implemented in that way since the
types of the second parameter differ. ldexpf() can be implemented as
a weak or strong reference to scalbnf() (*) but that was already done
long before rev.1.10 was committed. The old implementation uses a
reference, so rev.1.10 had no effect on applications. The C files for
the scalb() family are not used for amd64 or i386, so rev.1.10 had even
less effect for these arches.
(*) scalbnf() raises the radix to the given exponent, while ldexpf()
raises 2 to the given exponent. Thus the functions are equivalent
except possibly for their error handling iff the radix is 2. Standards
more or less require identical error handling. Under FreeBSD, the
functions are equivalent except for more details being missing in
scalbnf()'s man page.
commit broke the 2**24 cases where |x| > DBL_MAX/2. There are exponent
range problems not just for denormals (underflow) but for large values
(overflow). Doubles have more than enough exponent range to avoid the
problems, but I forgot to convert enough terms to double, so there was
an x+x term which was sometimes evaluated in float precision.
Unfortunately, this is a pessimization with some combinations of systems
and compilers (it makes no difference on Athlon XP's, but on Athlon64's
it gives a 5% pessimization with gcc-3.4 but not with gcc-3.3).
Exlain the problem better in comments.
algorithm for the second step significantly to also get a perfectly
rounded result in round-to-nearest mode. The resulting optimization
is about 25% on Athlon64's and 30% on Athlon XP's (about 25 cycles
out of 100 on the former).
Using extra precision, we don't need to do anything special to avoid
large rounding errors in the third step (Newton's method), so we can
regroup terms to avoid a division, increase clarity, and increase
opportunities for parallelism. Rearrangement for parallelism loses
the increase in clarity. We end up with the same number of operations
but with a division reduced to a multiplication.
Using specifically double precision, there is enough extra precision
for the third step to give enough precision for perfect rounding to
float precision provided the previous steps are accurate to 16 bits.
(They were accurate to 12 bits, which was almost minimal for imperfect
rounding in the old version but would be more than enough for imperfect
rounding in this version (9 bits would be enough now).) I couldn't
find any significant time optimizations from optimizing the previous
steps, so I decided to optimize for accuracy instead. The second step
needed a division although a previous commit optimized it to use a
polynomial approximation for its main detail, and this division dominated
the time for the second step. Use the same Newton's method for the
second step as for the third step since this is insignificantly slower
than the division plus the polynomial (now that Newton's method only
needs 1 division), significantly more accurate, and simpler. Single
precision would be precise enough for the second step, but doesn't
have enough exponent range to handle denormals without the special
grouping of terms (as in previous versions) that requires another
division, so we use double precision for both the second and third
steps.
distributed non-large args, this saves about 14 of 134 cycles for
Athlon64s and about 5 of 199 cycles for AthlonXPs.
Moved the check for x == 0 inside the check for subnormals. With
gcc-3.4 on uniformly distributed non-large args, this saves another
5 cycles on Athlon64s and loses 1 cycle on AthlonXPs.
Use INSERT_WORDS() and not SET_HIGH_WORD() when converting the first
approximation from bits to double. With gcc-3.4 on uniformly distributed
non-large args, this saves another 4 cycles on both Athlon64s and and
AthlonXPs.
Accessing doubles as 2 words may be an optimization on old CPUs, but on
current CPUs it tends to cause extra operations and pipeline stalls,
especially for writes, even when only 1 of the words needs to be accessed.
Removed an unused variable.
function approximation for the second step. The polynomial has degree
2 for cbrtf() and 4 for cbrt(). These degrees are minimal for the final
accuracy to be essentially the same as before (slightly smaller).
Adjust the rounding between steps 2 and 3 to match. Unfortunately,
for cbrt(), this breaks the claimed accuracy slightly although incorrect
rounding doesn't. Claim less accuracy since its not worth pessimizing
the polynomial or relying on exhaustive testing to get insignificantly
more accuracy.
This saves about 30 cycles on Athlons (mainly by avoiding 2 divisions)
so it gives an overall optimization in the 10-25% range (a larger
percentage for float precision, especially in 32-bit mode, since other
overheads are more dominant for double precision, surprisingly more
in 32-bit mode).
- in preparing for the third approximation, actually make t larger in
magnitude than cbrt(x). After chopping, t must be incremented by 2
ulps to make it larger, not 1 ulp since chopping can reduce it by
almost 1 ulp and it might already be up to half a different-sized-ulp
smaller than cbrt(x). I have not found any cases where this is
essential, but the think-time error bound depends on it. The relative
smallness of the different-sized-ulp limited the bug. If there are
cases where this is essential, then the final error bound would be
5/6+epsilon instead of of 4/6+epsilon ulps (still < 1).
- in preparing for the third approximation, round more carefully (but
still sloppily to avoid branches) so that the claimed error bound of
0.667 ulps is satisfied in all cases tested for cbrt() and remains
satisfied in all cases for cbrtf(). There isn't enough spare precision
for very sloppy rounding to work:
- in cbrt(), even with the inadequate increment, the actual error was
0.6685 in some cases, and correcting the increment increased this
a little. The fix uses sloppy rounding to 25 bits instead of very
sloppy rounding to 21 bits, and starts using uint64_t instead of 2
words for bit manipulation so that rounding more bits is not much
costly.
- in cbrtf(), the 0.667 bound was already satisfied even with the
inadequate increment, but change the code to almost match cbrt()
anyway. There is not enough spare precision in the Newton
approximation to double the inadequate increment without exceeding
the 0.667 bound, and no spare precision to avoid this problem as
in cbrt(). The fix is to round using an increment of 2 smaller-ulps
before chopping so that an increment of 1 ulp is enough. In cbrt(),
we essentially do the same, but move the chop point so that the
increment of 1 is not needed.
Fixed comments to match code:
- in cbrt(), the second approximation is good to 25 bits, not quite 26 bits.
- in cbrt(), don't claim that the second approximation may be implemented
in single precision. Single precision cannot handle the full exponent
range without minor but pessimal changes to renormalize, and although
single precision is enough, 25 bit precision is now claimed and used.
Added comments about some of the magic for the error bound 4/6+epsilon.
I still don't understand why it is 4/6+ and not 6/6+ ulps.
Indent comments at the right of code more consistently.
the second step of approximating cbrt(x). It turns out to be neither
very magic not nor very good. It is just the (2,2) Pade approximation
to 1/cbrt(r) at r = 1, arranged in a strange way to use fewer operations
at a cost of replacing 4 multiplications by 1 division, which is an
especially bad tradeoff on machines where some of the multiplications
can be done in parallel. A Remez rational approximation would give
at least 2 more bits of accuracy, but the (2,2) Pade approximation
already gives 6 more bits than needed. (Changed the comment which
essentially says that it gives 3 more bits.)
Lower order Pade approximations are not quite accurate enough for
double precision but are plenty for float precision. A lower order
Remez rational approximation might be enough for double precision too.
However, rational approximations inherently require an extra division,
and polynomial approximations work well for 1/cbrt(r) at r = 1, so I
plan to switch to using the latter. There are some technical
complications that tend to cost a division in another way.
This gives an optimization of between 9 and 22% on Athlons (largest
for cbrt() on amd64 -- from 205 to 159 cycles).
We extracted the sign bit and worked with |x|, and restored the sign
bit as the last step. We avoided branches to a fault by using accesses
to FP values as bits to clear and restore the sign bit. Avoiding
branches is usually good, but the bit access macros are not so good
(especially for setting FP values), and here they always caused pipeline
stalls on Athlons. Even using branches would be faster except on args
that give perfect branch misprediction, since only mispredicted branches
cause stalls, but it possible to avoid touching the sign bit in FP
values at all (except to preserve it in conversions from bits to FP
not related to the sign bit). Do this. The results are identical
except in 2 of the 3 unsupported rounding modes, since all the
approximations use odd rational functions so they work right on strictly
negative values, and the special case of -0 doesn't use an approximation.
<cbrt(x) in bits> ~= <x in bits>/3 + BIAS.
Keep the large comments only in the double version as usual.
Fixed some style bugs (mainly grammar and spelling errors in comments).
It was because I forgot to translate the part of the double precision
algorithm that chops t so that t*t is exact. Now the maximum error
is the same as for double precision (almost exactly 2.0/3 ulps).
The maximum error was 3.56 ulps.
The bug was another translation error. The double precision version
has a comment saying "new cbrt to 23 bits, may be implemented in
precision". This means exactly what it says -- that the 23 bit second
approximation for the double precision cbrt() may be implemented in
single (i.e., float) precision. It doesn't mean what the translation
assumed -- that this approximation, when implemented in float precision,
is good enough for the the final approximation in float precision.
First, float precision needs a 24 bit approximation. The "23 bit"
approximation is actually good to 24 bits on float precision args, but
only if it is evaluated in double precision. Second, the algorithm
requires a cleanup step to ensure its error bound.
In float precision, any reasonable algorithm works for the cleanup
step. Use the same algorithm as for double precision, although this
is much more than enough and is a significant pessimization, and don't
optimize or simplify anything using double precision to implement the
float case, so that the whole double precision algorithm can be verified
in float precision. A maximum error of 0.667 ulps is claimed for cbrt()
and the max for cbrtf() using the same algorithm shouldn't be different,
but the actual max for cbrtf() on amd64 is now 0.9834 ulps. (On i386
-O1 the max is 0.5006 (down from < 0.7) due to extra precision.)
The threshold for not being tiny was too small. Use the usual 2**-12
threshold. As for sinhf, use a different method (now the same as for
sinhf) to set the inexact flag for tiny nonzero x so that the larger
threshold works, although this method is imperfect. As for sinhf,
this change is not just an optimization, since the general code that
we fell into has accuracy problems even for tiny x. On amd64, avoiding
it fixes tanhf on 2*13495596 args with errors of between 1 and 1.3
ulps and thus reduces the total number of args with errors of >= 1 ulp
from 37533748 to 5271278; the maximum error is unchanged at 2.2 ulps.
The magic number 22 is log(DBL_MAX)/2 plus slop. This is bogus for
float precision. Use 9 (log(FLT_MAX)/2 plus less slop than for
double precision). Unlike for coshf and tanhf, this is just an
optimization, and MAX isn't misspelled EPSILON in the commit log.
I started testing with nonstandard rounding modes, and verified that
the chosen thresholds work for all modes modulo problems not related
to thresholds. The best thresholds are not very dependent on the mode,
at least for tanhf.
shares its low half with pio2_hi. pio2_hi is rounded down although
rounding to nearest would be a tiny bit better, so pio4_hi must be
rounded down too. It was rounded to nearest, which happens to be
different in float precision but the same in double precision.
This fixes about 13.5 million errors of more than 1 ulp in asinf().
The largest error was 2.81 ulps on amd64 and 2.57 ulps on i386 -O1.
Now the largest error is 0.93 ulps on amd65 and 0.67 ulps on i386 -O1.
sqrt(2)/2-1. For log1p(), fixed the approximation to sqrt(2)/2-1.
The end result is to fix an error of 1.293 ulps in
log1pf(0.41421395540 (hex 0x3ed413da))
and an error of 1.783 ulps in
log1p(-0.292893409729003961761) (hex 0x12bec4 00000001)).
The former was the only error of > 1 ulp for log1pf() and the latter
is the only such error that I know of for log1p().
The approximations don't need to be very accurate, but the last 2 need
to be related to the first and be rounded up a little (even more than
1 ulp for sqrt(2)/2-1) for the following implementation-detail reason:
when the arg (x) is not between (the approximations to) sqrt(2)/2-1
and sqrt(2)-1, we commit to using a correction term, but we only
actually use it if 1+x is between sqrt(2)/2 and sqrt(2) according to
the first approximation. Thus we must ensure that
!(sqrt(2)/2-1 < x < sqrt(2)-1) implies !(sqrt(2)/2 < x+1 < sqrt(2)),
where all the sqrt(2)'s are really slightly different approximations
to sqrt(2) and some of the "<"'s are really "<="'s. This was not done.
In log1pf(), the last 2 approximations were rounded up by about 6 ulps
more than needed relative to a good approximation to sqrt(2), but the
actual approximation to sqrt(2) was off by 3 ulps. The approximation
to sqrt(2)-1 ended up being 4 ulps too small, so the algoritm was
broken in 4 cases. The result happened to be broken in 1 case. This
is fixed by using a natural approximation to sqrt(2) and derived
approximations for the others.
In logf(), all the approximations made sense, but the approximation
to sqrt(2)/2-1 was 2 ulps too small (a tiny amount, since we compare
with a granularity of 2**32 ulps), so the algorithm was broken in 2
cases. The result was broken in 1 case. This is fixed by rounding
up the approximation to sqrt(2)/2-1 by 2**32 ulps, so 2**32 cases are
now handled a little differently (still correctly according to my
assertion that the approximations don't need to be very accurate, but
this has not been checked).
on assignment.
Extra precision on i386's broke hi+lo decomposition in the usual way.
It caused all except 1 of the 62343 errors of more than 1 ulp for
log1pf() on i386's with gcc -O [-fno-float-store].
according to the highest nonzero bit in a denormal was missing.
fdlibm ilogbf() and ilogb() have always had the adjustment, but only
use a small part of their method for handling denormals; use the
normalization method in log[f]() for the main part.
It was lost in rev.1.9. The log message for rev.1.9 says that the
special case of +-0 is handled twice, but it was only handled once,
so it became unhandled, and this happened to break half of the cases
that return +-0:
- round-towards-minus-infinity: 0 < x < 1: result was -0 not 0
- round-to-nearest: -0.5 <= x < 0: result was 0 not -0
- round-towards-plus-infinity: -1 < x < 0: result was 0 not -0
- round-towards-zero: -1 < x < 0: result was 0 not -0
TWO52[sx] to trick gcc into correctly converting TWO52[sx]+x to double
on assignment to "double w", force a correct assignment by assigning
to *(double *)&w. This is cleaner and avoids the double rounding
problem on machines that evaluate double expressions in double
precision. It is not necessary to convert w-TWO52[sx] to double
precision on return as implied in the comment in rev.1.3, since
the difference is exact.
(1) In round-to-nearest mode, on all machines, fdlibm rint() never
worked for |x| = n+0.75 where n is an even integer between 262144
and 524286 inclusive (2*131072 cases). To avoid double rounding
on some machines, we begin by adjusting x to a value with the 0.25
bit not set, essentially by moving the 0.25 bit to a lower bit
where it works well enough as a guard, but we botched the adjustment
when log2(|x|) == 18 (2*2**52 cases) and ended up just clearing
the 0.25 bit then. Most subcases still worked accidentally since
another lower bit serves as a guard. The case of odd n worked
accidentally because the rounding goes the right way then. However,
for even n, after mangling n+0.75 to 0.5, rounding gives n but the
correct result is n+1.
(2) In round-towards-minus-infinity mode, on all machines, fdlibm rint()
never for x = n+0.25 where n is any integer between -524287 and
-262144 inclusive (262144 cases). In these cases, after mangling
n+0.25 to n, rounding gives n but the correct result is n-1.
(3) In round-towards-plus-infinity mode, on all machines, fdlibm rint()
never for x = n+0.25 where n is any integer between 262144 and
524287 inclusive (262144 cases). In these cases, after mangling
n+0.25 to n, rounding gives n but the correct result is n+1.
A variant of this bug was fixed for the float case in rev.1.9 of s_rintf.c,
but the analysis there is incomplete (it only mentions (1)) and the fix
is buggy.
Example of the problem with double rounding: rint(1.375) on a machine
which evaluates double expressions with just 1 bit of extra precision
and is in round-to-nearest mode. We evaluate the result using
(double)(2**52 + 1.375) - 2**52. Evaluating 2**52 + 1.375 in (53+1) bit
prcision gives 2**52 + 1.5 (first rounding). (Second) rounding of this
to double gives 2**52 + 2.0. Subtracting 2**52 from this gives 2.0 but
we want 1.0. Evaluating 2**52 + 1.375 in double precision would have
given the desired intermediate result of 2**52 + 1.0.
The double rounding problem is relatively rare, so the botched adjustment
can be fixed for most machines by removing the entire adjustment. This
would be a wrong fix (using it is 1 of the bugs in rev.1.9 of s_rintf.c)
since fdlibm is supposed to be generic, but it works in the following cases:
- on all machines that evaluate double expressions in double precision,
provided either long double has the same precision as double (alpha,
and i386's with precision forced to double) or my earlier fix to use
a long double 2**52 is modified to avoid using long double precision.
- on all machines that evaluate double expressions in many more than 11
bits of extra precision. The 1 bit of extra precision in the example
is the worst case. With N bits of extra precision, it sufices to
adjust the bit N bits below the 0.5 bit. For N >= about 52 there is
no such bit so the adjustment is both impossible and unnecessary. The
fix in rev.1.9 of s_rintf.c apparently depends on corresponding magic
in float precision: on all supported machines N is either 0 or >= 24,
so double rounding doesn't occur in practice.
- on all machines that don't use fdlibm rint*() (i386's).
So under FreeBSD, the double rounding problem only affects amd64 now, but
should only affect i386 in future (when double expressions are evaluated
in long double precision).
- in round-towards-minus-infinity mode, on all machines, roundf(x) never
worked for 0 < |x| < 0.5 (2*0x3effffff cases in all, or almost half of
float space). It was -0 for 0 < x < 0.5 and 0 for -0.5 < x < 0, but
should be 0 and -0, respectively. This is because t = ceilf(|x|) = 1
for these args, and when we adjust t from 1 to 0 by subtracting 1, we
get -0 in this rounding mode, but we want and expected to get 0.
- in round-towards-minus-infinity, round towards zero and round-to-nearest
modes, on machines that evaluate float expressions in float precision
(most machines except i386's), roundf(x) never worked for |x| =
<float value immediately below 0.5> (2 cases in all). It was +-1 but
should have been +-0. This is because t = ceilf(|x|) = 1 for these
args, and when we try to classify |x| by subtracting it from 1 we
get an unexpected rounding error -- the result is 0.5 after rounding
to float in all 3 rounding modes, so we we have forgotten the
difference between |x| and 0.5 and end up returning the same value
as for +-0.5.
The fix is to use floorf() instead of ceilf() and to add 1 instead of
-1 in the adjustment. With floorf() all the expressions used are
always evaluated exactly so there are no rounding problems, and with
adjustments of +1 we don't go near -0 when adjusting.
Attempted to fix round() and roundl() by cloning the fix for roundf().
This has only been tested for round(), only on args representable as
floats. Double expressions are evaluated in double precision even on
i386's, so round(0.5-epsilon) was broken even on i386's. roundl()
must be completely broken on i386's since long double precision is not
really supported. There seem to be no other dependencies on the
precision.
k_tanf.c but with different details.
The polynomial is odd with degree 13 for tanf() and odd with degree
9 for sinf(), so the details are not very different for sinf() -- the
term with the x**11 and x**13 coefficients goes awaym and (mysteriously)
it helps to do the evaluation of w = z*z early although moving it later
was a key optimization for tanf(). The details are different but simpler
for cosf() because the polynomial is even and of lower degree.
On Athlons, for uniformly distributed args in [-2pi, 2pi], this gives
an optimization of about 4 cycles (10%) in most cases (13% for sinf()
on AXP, but 0% for cosf() with gcc-3.3 -O1 on AXP). The best case
(sinf() with gcc-3.4 -O1 -fcaller-saves on A64) now takes 33-39 cycles
(was 37-45 cycles). Hardware sinf takes 74-129 cycles. Despite
being fine tuned for Athlons, the optimization is even larger on
some other arches (about 15% on ia64 (pluto2) and 20% on alpha (beast)
with gcc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer).
cosf(x) is supposed to return something like x when x is a NaN, and
we actually fairly consistently return x-x which is normally very like
x (on i386 and and it is x if x is a quiet NaN and x with the quiet bit
set if x is a signaling NaN. Rev.1.10 broke this by normalising x to
fabsf(x). It's not clear if fabsf(x) is should preserve x if x is a NaN,
but it actually clears the sign bit, and other parts of the code depended
on this.
The bugs can be fixed by saving x before normalizing it, and using the
saved x only for NaNs, and using uint32_t instead of int32_t for ix
so that negative NaNs are not misclassified even if fabsf() doesn't
clear their sign bit, but gcc pessimizes the saving very well, especially
on Athlon XPs (it generates extra loads and stores, and mixes use of
the SSE and i387, and this somehow messes up pipelines). Normalizing
x is not a very good optimization anyway, so stop doing it. (It adds
latency to the FPU pipelines, but in previous versions it helped except
for |x| <= 3pi/4 by simplifying the integer pipelines.) Use the same
organization as in s_sinf.c and s_tanf.c with some branches reordered.
These changes combined recover most of the performance of the unfixed
version on A64 but still lose 10% on AXP with gcc-3.4 -O1 but not with
gcc-3.3 -O1.
that was used doesn't work normally here, since we want to be able to
multiply `hi' by the exponent of x _exactly_, and the exponent of x has
more than 7 significant bits for most denormal x's, so the multiplication
was not always exact despite a cloned comment claiming that it was. (The
comment is correct in the double precision case -- with the normal 33+53
bit decomposition the exponent can have 20 significant bits and the extra
bit for denormals is only the 11th.)
Fixing this had little or no effect for denormals (I think because
more precision is inherently lost for denormals than is lost by roundoff
errors in the multiplication).
The fix is to reduce the precision of the decomposition to 16+24 bits.
Due to 2 bugs in the old deomposition and numerical accidents, reducing
the precision actually increased the precision of hi+lo. The old hi+lo
had about 39 bits instead of at least 41 like it should have had.
There were off-by-1-bit errors in each of hi and lo, apparently due
to mistranslation from the double precision hi and lo. The correct
16 bit hi happens to give about 19 bits of precision, so the correct
hi+lo gives about 43 bits instead of at least 40. The end result is
that expf() is now perfectly rounded (to nearest) except in 52561 cases
instead of except in 67027 cases, and the maximum error is 0.5013 ulps
instead of 0.5023 ulps.
Instead of echoing the code in a comment, try to describe why we split
up the evaluation in a special way.
The new optimization is mostly to move the evaluation of w = z*z later
so that everything else (except z = x*x) doesn't have to wait for w.
On Athlons, FP multiplication has a latency of 4 cycles so this
optimization saves 4 cycles per call provided no new dependencies are
introduced. Tweaking the other terms in to reduce dependencies saves
a couple more cycles in some cases (more on AXP than on A64; up to 8
cycles out of 56 altogether in some cases). The previous version had
a similar optimization for s = z*x. Special optimizations like these
probably have a larger effect than the simple 2-way vectorization
permitted (but not activated by gcc) in the old version, since 2-way
vectorization is not enough and the polynomial's degree is so small
in the float case that non-vectorizable dependencies dominate.
On an AXP, tanf() on uniformly distributed args in [-2pi, 2pi] now
takes 34-55 cycles (was 39-59 cycles).
of between 1.0 and 1.8509 ulps for lgammaf(x) with x between -2**-21 and
-2**-70.
As usual, the cutoff for tiny args was not correctly translated to
float precision. It was 2**-70 but 2**-21 works. Not as usual, having
a too-small threshold was worse than a pessimization. It was just a
pessimization for (positive) args between 2**-70 and 2**-21, but for
the first ~50 million (negative) args below -2**-70, the general code
overflowed and gave a result of infinity instead of correct (finite)
results near 70*log(2). For the remaining ~361 million negative args
above -2**21, the general code gave almost-acceptable errors (lgamma[f]()
is not very accurate in general) but the pessimization was larger than
for misclassified tiny positive args.
Now the max error for lgammaf(x) with |x| < 2**-21 is 0.7885 ulps, and
speed and accuracy are almost the same for positive and negative args
in this range. The maximum error overall is still infinity ulps.
A cutoff of 2**-70 is probably wastefully small for the double precision
case. Smaller cutoffs can be used to reduce the max error to nearly
0.5 ulps for tiny args, but this is useless since the general algrorithm
for nearly-tiny args is not nearly that accurate -- it has a max error of
about 1 ulp.
gives a tiny but hopefully always free optimization in the 2 quadrants
to which it applies. On Athlons, it reduces maximum latency by 4 cycles
in these quadrants but has usually has a smaller effect on total time
(typically ~2 cycles (~5%), but sometimes 8 cycles when the compiler
generates poor code).
of the function name.
Added my (non-)copyright.
In k_tanf.c, added the first set of redundant parentheses to control
grouping which was claimed to be added in the previous commit.
returning float). The functions are renamed from __kernel_{cos,sin}f()
to __kernel_{cos,sin}df() so that misuses of them will cause link errors
and not crashes.
This version is an almost-routine translation with no special optimizations
for accuracy or efficiency. The not-quite-routine part is that in
__kernel_cosf(), regenerating the minimax polynomial with double
precision coefficients gives a coefficient for the x**2 term that is
not quite -0.5, so the literal 0.5 in the code and the related `hz'
variable need to be modified; also, the special code for reducing the
error in 1.0-x**2*0.5 is no longer needed, so it is convenient to
adjust all the logic for the x**2 term a little. Note that without
extra precision, it would be very bad to use a coefficient of other
than -0.5 for the x**2 term -- the old version depends on multiplication
by -0.5 being infinitely precise so as not to need even more special
code for reducing the error in 1-x**2*0.5.
This gives an unimportant increase in accuracy, from ~0.8 to ~0.501
ulps. Almost all of the error is from the final rounding step, since
the choice of the minimax polynomials so that their contribution to the
error is a bit less than 0.5 ulps just happens to give contributions that
are significantly less (~.001 ulps).
An Athlons, for uniformly distributed args in [-2pi, 2pi], this gives
overall speed increases in the 10-20% range, despite giving a speed
decrease of typically 19% (from 31 cycles up to 37) for sinf() on args
in [-pi/4, pi/4].
- Remove dead code that I forgot to remove in the previous commit.
- Calculate the sum of the lower terms of the polynomial (divided by
x**5) in a single expression (sum of odd terms) + (sum of even terms)
with parentheses to control grouping. This is clearer and happens to
give better instruction scheduling for a tiny optimization (an
average of about ~0.5 cycles/call on Athlons).
- Calculate the final sum in a single expression with parentheses to
control grouping too. Change the grouping from
first_term + (second_term + sum_of_lower_terms) to
(first_term + second_term) + sum_of_lower_terms. Normally the first
grouping must be used for accuracy, but extra precision makes any
grouping give a correct result so we can group for efficiency. This
is a larger optimization (average 3-4 cycles/call or 5%).
- Use parentheses to indicate that the C order of left to right evaluation
is what is wanted (for efficiency) in a multiplication too.
The old fdlibm code has several optimizations related to these. 2
involve doing an extra operation that can be done almost in parallel
on some superscalar machines but are pessimizations on sequential
machines. Others involve statement ordering or expression grouping.
All of these except the ordering for the combining the sums of the odd
and even terms seem to be ideal for Athlons, but parallelism is still
limited so all of these optimizations combined together with the ones
in this commit save only ~6-8 cycles (~10%).
On an AXP, tanf() on uniformly distributed args in [-2pi, 2pi] now
takes 39-59 cycles. I don't know of any more optimizations for tanf()
short of writing it all in asm with very MD instruction scheduling.
Hardware fsin takes 122-138 cycles. Most of the optimizations for
tanf() don't work very well for tan[l](). fdlibm tan() now takes
145-365 cycles.
A single polynomial approximation for tan(x) works in infinite precision
up to |x| < pi/2, but in finite precision, to restrict the accumulated
roundoff error to < 1 ulp, |x| must be restricted to less than about
sqrt(0.5/((1.5+1.5)/3)) ~= 0.707. We restricted it a bit more to
give a safety margin including some slop for optimizations. Now that
we use double precision for the calculations, the accumulated roundoff
error is in double-precision ulps so it can easily be made almost 2**29
times smaller than a single-precision ulp. Near x = pi/4 its maximum
is about 0.5+(1.5+1.5)*x**2/3 ~= 1.117 double-precision ulps.
The minimax polynomial needs to be different to work for the larger
interval. I didn't increase its degree the old degree is just large
enough to keep the final error less than 1 ulp and increasing the
degree would be a pessimization. The maximum error is now ~0.80
ulps instead of ~0.53 ulps.
The speedup from this optimization for uniformly distributed args in
[-2pi, 2pi] is 28-43% on athlons, depending on how badly gcc selected
and scheduled the instructions in the old version. The old version
has some int-to-float conversions that are apparently difficult to schedule
well, but gcc-3.3 somehow did everything ~10 cycles or ~10% faster than
gcc-3.4, with the difference especially large on AXPs. On A64s, the
problem seems to be related to documented penalties for moving single
precision data to undead xmm registers. With this version, the speed
is cycles is almost independent of the athlon and gcc version despite
the large differences in instruction selection to use the FPU on AXPs
and SSE on A64s.
This is a minor interface change. The function is renamed from
__kernel_tanf() to __kernel_tandf() so that misues of it will cause
link errors and not crashes.
This version is a routine translation with no special optimizations
for accuracy or efficiency. It gives an unimportant increase in
accuracy, from ~0.9 ulps to 0.5285 ulps. Almost all of the error is
from the minimax polynomial (~0.03 ulps and the final rounding step
(< 0.5 ulps). It gives strange differences in efficiency in the -5
to +10% range, with -O1 fairly consistently becoming faster and -O2
slower on AXP and A64 with gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4.
arg to __kernel_rem_pio2() gives 53-bit (double) precision, not single
precision and/or the array dimension like I thought. prec == 2 is
used in e_rem_pio2.c for double precision although it is documented
to be for 64-bit (extended) precision, and I just reduced it by 1
thinking that this would give the value suitable for 24-bit (float)
precision. Reducing it 1 more to the documented value for float
precision doesn't actually work (it gives errors of ~0.75 ulps in the
reduced arg, but errors of much less than 0.5 ulps are needed; the bug
seems to be in kernel_rem_pio2.c). Keep using a value 1 larger than
the documented value but supply an array large enough hold the extra
unused result from this.
The bug can also be fixed quickly by increasing init_jk[0] in
k_rem_pio2.c from 2 to 3. This gives behaviour identical to using
prec == 1 except it doesn't create the extra result. It isn't clear
how the precision bug affects higher precisions. 113-bit (quad) is
the largest precision, so there is no way to use a large precision
to fix it.
they can be #included in other .c files to give inline functions, and
use them to inline the functions in most callers (not in e_lgammaf_r.c).
__kernel_tanf() is too large and complicated for gcc to inline very well.
An athlons, this gives a speed increase under favourable pipeline
conditions of about 10% overall (larger for AXP, smaller for A64).
E.g., on AXP, sinf() on uniformly distributed args in [-2Pi, 2Pi]
now takes 30-56 cycles; it used to take 45-61 cycles; hardware fsin
takes 65-129.
On athlons, this gives a speedup of 10-20% for tanf() on uniformly
distributed args in [-2Pi, 2Pi]. (It only directly applies for 43%
of the args and gives a 16-20% speedup for these (more for AXP than
A64) and this gives an overall speedup of 10-12% which is all that it
should; however, it gives an overall speedup of 17-20% with gcc-3.3
on AXP-A64 by mysteriously effected cases where it isn't executed.)
I originally intended to use double precision for all internals of
float trig functions and will probably still do this, but benchmarking
showed that converting to double precision and back is a pessimization
in cases where a simple float precision calculation works, so it may
be optimal to switch precisions only when using extra precision is
much simpler.
__ieee754_rem_pio2f() to its 3 callers and manually inline them.
On Athlons, with favourable compiler flags and optimizations and
favourable pipeline conditions, this gives a speedup of 30-40 cycles
for cosf(), sinf() and tanf() on the range pi/4 < |x| <= 9pi/4, so
thes functions are now signifcantly faster than the hardware trig
functions in many cases. E.g., in a benchmark with uniformly distributed
x in [-2pi, 2pi], A64 hardware fcos took 72-129 cycles and cosf() took
37-55 cycles. Out-of-order execution is needed to get both of these
times. The optimizations in this commit apparently work more by
removing 1 serialization point than by reducing latency.
s_cosf.c and s_sinf.c:
Use a non-bogus magic constant for the threshold of pi/4. It was 2 ulps
smaller than pi/4 rounded down, but its value is not critical so it should
be the result of natural rounding.
s_cosf.c and s_tanf.c:
Use a literal 0.0 instead of an unnecessary variable initialized to
[(float)]0.0. Let the function prototype convert to 0.0F.
Improved wording in some comments.
Attempted to improve indentation of comments.
number of branches.
Use a non-bogus magic constant for the threshold of pi/4. It was 2 ulps
smaller than pi/4 rounded down, but its value is not critical so it should
be the result of natural rounding. Use "<=" comparisons with rounded-
down thresholds for all small multiples of pi/4.
Cleaned up previous commit:
- use static const variables instead of expressions for multiples of pi/2
to ensure that they are evaluated at compile time. gcc currently
evaluates them at compile time but C99 compilers are not required
to do so. We want compile time evaluation for optimization and don't
care about side effects.
- use M_PI_2 instead of a magic constant for pi/2. We need magic constants
related to pi/2 elsewhere but not here since we just want pi/2 rounded
to double and even prefer it to be rounded in the default rounding mode.
We can depend on the cmpiler being C99ish enough to round M_PI_2 correctly
just as much as we depended on it handling hex constants correctly. This
also fixes a harmless rounding error in the hex constant.
- keep using expressions n*<value for pi/2> in the initializers for the
static const variables. 2*M_PI_2 and 4*M_PI_2 are obviously rounded in
the same way as the corresponding infinite precision expressions for
multiples of pi/2, and 3*M_PI_2 happens to be rounded like this, so we
don't need magic constants for the multiples.
- fixed and/or updated some comments.
The threshold for not being tiny was too small. Use the usual 2**-12
threshold. This change is not just an optimization, since the general
code that we fell into has accuracy problems even for tiny x. Avoiding
it fixes 2*1366 args with errors of more than 1 ulp, with a maximum
error of 1.167 ulps.
The magic number 22 is log(DBL_EPSILON)/2 plus slop. This is bogus
for float precision. Use 9 (~log(FLT_EPSILON)/2 plus less slop than
for double precision). The code for handling the interval
[2**-28, 9_was_22] has accuracy problems even for [9, 22], so this
change happens to fix errors of more than 1 ulp in about 2*17000
cases. It leaves such errors in about 2*1074000 cases, with a max
error of 1.242 ulps.
The threshold for switching from returning exp(x)/2 to returning
exp(x/2)^2/2 was a little smaller than necessary. As for coshf(),
This was not quite harmless since the exp(x/2)^2/2 case is inaccurate,
and fixing it avoids accuracy problems in 2*6 cases, leaving problems
in 2*19997 cases.
Fixed naming errors in pseudo-code in comments.
The threshold for not being tiny was confusing and too small. Use the
usual 2**-12 threshold and simplify the algorithm slightly so that
this threshold works (now use the threshold for sinhf() instead of one
for 1+expm1()). This is just a small optimization.
The magic number 22 is log(DBL_EPSILON)/2 plus slop. This is bogus
for float precision. Use 9 (~log(FLT_EPSILON)/2 plus less slop than
for double precision).
The threshold for switching from returning exp(x)/2 to returning
exp(x/2)^2/2 was a little smaller than necessary. This was not quite
harmless since the exp(x/2)^2/2 case is inaccurate. Fixing it happens
to avoid accuracy problems for 2*6 of the 2*151 args that were handled
by the exp(x)/2 case. This leaves accuracy problems for about 2*19997
args near the overflow threshold (~89); the maximum error there is
2.5029 ulps.
There are also accuracy probles for args in +-[0.5*ln2, 9] -- 2*188885
args with errors of more than 1 ulp, with a maximum error of 1.384 ulps.
Fixed a syntax error and naming errors in pseudo-code in comments.
specialized for float precision. The new polynomial has degree 8
instead of 14, and a maximum error of 2**-34.34 (absolute) instead of
2**-30.66. This doesn't affect the final error significantly; the
maximum error was and is about 0.8879 ulps on amd64 -01.
The fdlibm expf() is not used on i386's (the "optimized" asm version
is used), but probably should be since it was already significantly
faster than the asm version on athlons. The asm version has the
advantage of being more accurate, so keep using it for now.
polynomial for __kernel_tanf(). The old one was the double-precision
polynomial with coefficients truncated to float. Truncation is not
a good way to convert minimax polynomials to lower precision. Optimize
for efficiency and use the lowest-degree polynomial that gives a
relative error of less than 1 ulp. It has degree 13 instead of 27,
and happens to be 2.5 times more accurate (in infinite precision) than
the old polynomial (the maximum error is 0.017 ulps instead of 0.041
ulps).
Unlike for cosf and sinf, the old accuracy was close to being inadequate
-- the polynomial for double precision has a max error of 0.014 ulps
and nearly this small an error is needed. The new accuracy is also a
bit small, but exhaustive checking shows that even the old accuracy
was enough. The increased accuracy reduces the maximum relative error
in the final result on amd64 -O1 from 0.9588 ulps to 0.9044 ulps.
special case pi/4 <= |x| < 3*pi/4. This gives a tiny optimization (it
saves 2 subtractions, which are scheduled well so they take a whole 1
cycle extra on an AthlonXP), and simplifies the code so that the
following optimization is not so ugly.
Optimize for the range 3*pi/4 < |x| < 9*Pi/2 in the same way. On
Athlon{XP,64} systems, this gives a 25-40% optimization (depending a
lot on CFLAGS) for the cosf() and sinf() consumers on this range.
Relative to i387 hardware fcos and fsin, it makes the software versions
faster in most cases instead of slower in most cases. The relative
optimization is smaller for tanf() the inefficient part is elsewhere.
The 53-bit approximation to pi/2 is good enough for pi/4 <= |x| <
3*pi/4 because after losing up to 24 bits to subtraction, we still
have 29 bits of precision and only need 25 bits. Even with only 5
extra bits, it is possible to get perfectly rounded results starting
with the reduced x, since if x is nearly a multiple of pi/2 then x is
not near a half-way case and if x is not nearly a multiple of pi/2
then we don't lose many bits. With our intentionally imperfect rounding
we get the same results for cosf(), sinf() and tanf() as without this
optimization.
standard in C99 and POSIX.1-2001+. They are also not deprecated, since
apart from being standard they can handle special args slightly better
than the ilogb() functions.
Move their documentation to ilogb.3. Try to use consistent and improved
wording for both sets of functions. All of ieee854, C99 and POSIX
have better wording and more details for special args.
Add history for the logb() functions and ilogbl(). Fix history for
ilogb().
so that it can be faster for tiny x and avoided for reduced x.
This improves things a little differently than for cosine and sine.
We still need to reclassify x in the "kernel" functions, but we get
an extra optimization for tiny x, and an overall optimization since
tiny reduced x rarely happens. We also get optimizations for space
and style. A large block of poorly duplicated code to fix a special
case is no longer needed. This supersedes the fixes in k_sin.c revs
1.9 and 1.11 and k_sinf.c 1.8 and 1.10.
Fixed wrong constant for the cutoff for "tiny" in tanf(). It was
2**-28, but should be almost the same as the cutoff in sinf() (2**-12).
The incorrect cutoff protected us from the bugs fixed in k_sinf.c 1.8
and 1.10, except 4 cases of reduced args passed the cutoff and needed
special handling in theory although not in practice. Now we essentially
use a cutoff of 0 for the case of reduced args, so we now have 0 special
args instead of 4.
This change makes no difference to the results for sinf() (since it
only changes the algorithm for the 4 special args and the results for
those happen not to change), but it changes lots of results for sin().
Exhaustive testing is impossible for sin(), but exhaustive testing
for sinf() (relative to a version with the old algorithm and a fixed
cutoff) shows that the changes in the error are either reductions or
from 0.5-epsilon ulps to 0.5+epsilon ulps. The new method just uses
some extra terms in approximations so it tends to give more accurate
results, and there are apparently no problems from having extra
accuracy. On amd64 with -O1, on all float args the error range in ulps
is reduced from (0.500, 0.665] to [0.335, 0.500) in 24168 cases and
increased from 0.500-epsilon to 0.500+epsilon in 24 cases. Non-
exhaustive testing by ucbtest shows no differences.
commit moved it). This includes a comment that the "kernel" sine no
longer works on arg -0, so callers must now handle this case. The kernel
sine still works on all other tiny args; without the optimization it is
just a little slower on these args. I intended it to keep working on
all tiny args, but that seems to be impossible without losing efficiency
or accuracy. (sin(x) ~ x * (1 + S1*x**2 + ...) would preserve -0, but
the approximation must be written as x + S1*x**3 + ... for accuracy.)
case never occurs since pi/2 is irrational so no multiple of it can
be represented as a float and we have precise arg reduction so we never
end up with a remainder of 0 in the "kernel" function unless the
original arg is 0.
If this case occurs, then we would now fall through to general code
that returns +-Inf (depending on the sign of the reduced arg) instead
of forcing +Inf. The correct handling would be to return NaN since
we would have lost so much precision that the correct result can be
anything _except_ +-Inf.
Don't reindent the else clause left over from this, although it was already
bogusly indented ("if (foo) return; else ..." just marches the indentation
to the right), since it will be removed too.
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< if (((ix | low) | (iy + 1)) == 0)
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> {
a declaration was not translated to "float" although bit fiddling on
double variables was translated. This resulted in garbage being put
into the low word of one of the doubles instead of non-garbage being
put into the only word of the intended float. This had no effect on
any result because:
- with doubles, the algorithm for calculating -1/(x+y) is unnecessarily
complicated. Just returning -1/((double)x+y) would work, and the
misdeclaration gave something like that except for messing up some
low bits with the bit fiddling.
- doubles have plenty of bits to spare so messing up some of the low
bits is unlikely to matter.
- due to other bugs, the buggy code is reached for a whole 4 args out
of all 2**32 float args. The bug fixed by 1.8 only affects a small
percentage of cases and a small percentage of 4 is 0. The 4 args
happen to cause no problems without 1.8, so they are even less likely
to be affected by the bug in 1.8 than average args; in fact, neither
1.8 nor this commit makes any difference to the result for these 4
args (and thus for all args).
Corrections to the log message in 1.8: the bug only applies to tan()
and not tanf(), not because the float type can't represent numbers
large enough to trigger the problem (e.g., the example in the fdlibm-5.3
readme which is > 1.0e269), but because:
- the float type can't represent small enough numbers. For there to be
a possible problem, the original arg for tanf() must lie very near an
odd multiple of pi/2. Doubles can get nearer in absolute units. In
ulps there should be little difference, but ...
- ... the cutoff for "small" numbers is bogus in k_tanf.c. It is still
the double value (2**-28). Since this is 32 times smaller than
FLT_EPSILON and large float values are not very uniformly distributed,
only 6 args other than ones that are initially below the cutoff give
a reduced arg that passes the cutoff (the 4 problem cases mentioned
above and 2 non-problem cases).
Fixing the cutoff makes the bug affect tanf() and much easier to detect
than for tan(). With a cutoff of 2**-12 on amd64 with -O1, 670102
args pass the cutoff; of these, there are 337604 cases where there
might be an error of >= 1 ulp and 5826 cases where there is such an
error; the maximum error is 1.5382 ulps.
The fix in 1.8 works with the reduced cutoff in all cases despite the
bug in it. It changes the result in 84492 cases altogether to fix the
5826 broken cases. Fixing the fix by translating "double" to "float"
changes the result in 42 cases relative to 1.8. In 24 cases the
(absolute) error is increased and in 18 cases it is reduced, but it
remains less than 1 ulp in all cases.
The log message for 1.5 said that some small (one or two ulp) inaccuracies
were fixed, and a comment implied that the critical change is to switch
the rounding mode to to-nearest, with a switch of the precision to
extended at no extra cost. Actually, the errors are very large (ucbtest
finds ones of several hundred ulps), and it is the switch of the
precision that is critical.
Another comment was wrong about NaNs being handled sloppily.
and medium size args too: instead of conditionally subtracting a float
17+24, 17+17+24 or 17+17+17+24 bit approximation to pi/2, always
subtract a double 33+53 bit one. The float version is now closer to
the double version than to old versions of itself -- it uses the same
33+53 bit approximation as the simplest cases in the double version,
and where the float version had to switch to the slow general case at
|x| == 2^7*pi/2, it now switches at |x| == 2^19*pi/2 the same as the
double version.
This speeds up arg reduction by a factor of 2 for |x| between 3*pi/4 and
2^7*pi/4, and by a factor of 7 for |x| between 2^7*pi/4 and 2^19*pi/4.
using under FreeBSD. Before this commit, all float precision functions
except exp2f() were implemented using only float precision, apparently
because Cygnus needed this in 1993 for embedded systems with slow or
inefficient double precision. For FreeBSD, except possibly on systems
that do floating point entirely in software (very old i386 and now
arm), this just gives a more complicated implementation, many bugs,
and usually worse performance for float precision than for double
precision. The bugs and worse performance were particulary large in
arg reduction for trig functions. We want to divide by an approximation
to pi/2 which has as many as 1584 bits, so we should use the widest
type that is efficient and/or easy to use, i.e., double. Use fdlibm's
__kernel_rem_pio2() to do this as Sun apparently intended. Cygnus's
k_rem_pio2f.c is now unused. e_rem_pio2f.c still needs to be separate
from e_rem_pio2.c so that it can be optimized for float args. Similarly
for long double precision.
This speeds up cosf(x) on large args by a factor of about 2. Correct
arg reduction on large args is still inherently very slow, so hopefully
these args rarely occur in practice. There is much more efficiency
to be gained by using double precision to speed up arg reduction on
medium and small float args.
__kernel_sinf(). The old ones were the double-precision polynomials
with coefficients truncated to float. Truncation is not a good way
to convert minimax polynomials to lower precision. Optimize for
efficiency and use the lowest-degree polynomials that give a relative
error of less than 1 ulp -- degree 8 instead of 14 for cosf and degree
9 instead of 13 for sinf. For sinf, the degree 8 polynomial happens
to be 6 times more accurate than the old degree 14 one, but this only
gives a tiny amount of extra accuracy in results -- we just need to
use a a degree high enough to give a polynomial whose relative accuracy
in infinite precision (but with float coefficients) is a small fraction
of a float ulp (fdlibm generally uses 1/32 for the small fraction, and
the fraction for our degree 8 polynomial is about 1/600).
The maximum relative errors for cosf() and sinf() are now 0.7719 ulps
and 0.7969 ulps, respectively.
This supersedes the fix for the old algorithm in rev.1.8 of k_cosf.c.
I want this change mainly because it is an optimization. It helps
make software cos[f](x) and sin[f](x) faster than the i387 hardware
versions for small x. It is also a simplification, and reduces the
maximum relative error for cosf() and sinf() on machines like amd64
from about 0.87 ulps to about 0.80 ulps. It was validated for cosf()
and sinf() by exhaustive testing. Exhaustive testing is not possible
for cos() and sin(), but ucbtest reports a similar reduction for the
worst case found by non-exhaustive testing. ucbtest's non-exhaustive
testing seems to be good enough to find problems in algorithms but not
maximum relative errors when there are spikes. E.g., short runs of
it find only 3 ulp error where the i387 hardware cos() has an error
of about 2**40 ulps near pi/2.
to floats (mainly i386's). All errors of more than 1 ulp for float
precision trig functions were supposed to have been fixed; however,
compiling with gcc -O2 uncovered 18250 more such errors for cosf(),
with a maximum error of 1.409 ulps.
Use essentially the same fix as in rev.1.8 of k_rem_pio2f.c (access a
non-volatile variable as a volatile). Here the -O1 case apparently
worked because the variable is in a 2-element array and it takes -O2
to mess up such a variable by putting it in a register.
The maximum error for cosf() on i386 with gcc -O2 is now 0.5467 (it
is still 0.5650 with gcc -O1). This shows that -O2 still causes some
extra precision, but the extra precision is now good.
Extra precision is harmful mainly for implementing extra precision in
software. We want to represent x+y as w+r where both "+" operations
are in infinite precision and r is tiny compared with w. There is a
standard algorithm for this (Knuth (1981) 4.2.2 Theorem C), and fdlibm
uses this routinely, but the algorithm requires w and r to have the
same precision as x and y. w is just x+y (calculated in the same
finite precision as x and y), and r is a tiny correction term. The
i386 gcc bugs tend to give extra precision in w, and then using this
extra precision in the calculation of r results in the correction
mostly staying in w and being missing from r. There still tends to
be no problem if the result is a simple expression involving w and r
-- modulo spills, w keeps its extra precision and r remains the right
correction for this wrong w. However, here we want to pass w and r
to extern functions. Extra precision is not retained in function args,
so w gets fixed up, but the change to the tiny r is tinier, so r almost
remains as a wrong correction for the right w.
{cos_sin}[f](x) so that x doesn't need to be reclassified in the
"kernel" functions to determine if it is tiny (it still needs to be
reclassified in the cosine case for other reasons that will go away).
This optimization is quite large for exponentially distributed x, since
x is tiny for almost half of the domain, but it is a pessimization for
uniformally distributed x since it takes a little time for all cases
but rarely applies. Arg reduction on exponentially distributed x
rarely gives a tiny x unless the reduction is null, so it is best to
only do the optimization if the initial x is tiny, which is what this
commit arranges. The imediate result is an average optimization of
1.4% relative to the previous version in a case that doesn't favour
the optimization (double cos(x) on all float x) and a large
pessimization for the relatively unimportant cases of lgamma[f][_r](x)
on tiny, negative, exponentially distributed x. The optimization should
be recovered for lgamma*() as part of fixing lgamma*()'s low-quality
arg reduction.
Fixed various wrong constants for the cutoff for "tiny". For cosine,
the cutoff is when x**2/2! == {FLT or DBL}_EPSILON/2. We round down
to an integral power of 2 (and for cos() reduce the power by another
1) because the exact cutoff doesn't matter and would take more work
to determine. For sine, the exact cutoff is larger due to the ration
of terms being x**2/3! instead of x**2/2!, but we use the same cutoff
as for cosine. We now use a cutoff of 2**-27 for double precision and
2**-12 for single precision. 2**-27 was used in all cases but was
misspelled 2**27 in comments. Wrong and sloppy cutoffs just cause
missed optimizations (provided the rounding mode is to nearest --
other modes just aren't supported).
broken assignment to floats (e.g., i386 with gcc -O, but not amd64 or
ia64; i386 with gcc -O0 worked accidentally).
Use an unnamed volatile temporary variable to trick gcc -O into clipping
extra precision on assignment. It's surprising that only 1 place needed
to be changed.
For tanf() on i386 with gcc -O, the bug caused errors > 1 ulp with a
density of 2.3% for args larger in magnitude than 128*pi/2, with a
maximum error of 1.624 ulps.
After this fix, exhaustive testing shows that range reduction for
floats works as intended assuming that it is in within a factor of
about 2^16 of working as intended for doubles. It provides >= 8
extra bits of precision for all ranges. On i386:
range max error in double/single ulps extra precision
----- ------------------------------- ---------------
0 to 3*pi/4 0x000d3132 / 0.0016 9+ bits
3*pi/4 to 128*pi/2 0x00160445 / 0.0027 8+
128*pi/2 to +Inf 0x00000030 / 0.00000009 23+
128*pi/2 up, -O0 before fix 0x00000030 / 0.00000009 23+
128*pi/2 up, -O1 before fix 0x10000000 / 0.5 1
The 23+ bits of extra precision for large multiples corresponds to almost
perfect reduction to a pair of floats (24 extra would be perfect).
After this fix, the maximum relative error (relative to the corresponding
fdlibm double precision function) is < 1 ulp for all basic trig functions
on all 2^32 float args on all machines tested:
amd64 ia64 i386-O0 i386-O1
------ ------ ------ ------
cosf: 0.8681 0.8681 0.7927 0.5650
sinf: 0.8733 0.8610 0.7849 0.5651
tanf: 0.9708 0.9329 0.9329 0.7035
of pi/2 (1 line) and expand a comment about related magic (many lines).
The bug was essentially the same as for the +-pi/2 case (a mistranslated
mask), but was smaller so it only significantly affected multiples
starting near +-13*pi/2. At least on amd64, for cosf() on all 2^32
float args, the bug caused 128 errors of >= 1 ulp, with a maximum error
of 1.2393 ulps.
and add a comment about related magic (many lines)).
__kernel_cos[f]() needs a trick to reduce the error to below 1 ulp
when |x| >= 0.3 for the range-reduced x. Modulo other bugs, naive
code that doesn't use the trick would have an error of >= 1 ulp
in about 0.00006% of cases when |x| >= 0.3 for the unreduced x,
with a maximum relative error of about 1.03 ulps. Mistransation
of the trick from the double precision case resulted in errors in
about 0.2% of cases, with a maximum relative error of about 1.3 ulps.
The mistranslation involved not doing implicit masking of the 32-bit
float word corresponding to to implicit masking of the lower 32-bit
double word by clearing it.
sinf() uses __kernel_cosf() for half of all cases so its errors from
this bug are similar. tanf() is not affected.
The error bounds in the above and in my other recent commit messages
are for amd64. Extra precision for floats on i386's accidentally masks
this bug, but only if k_cosf.c is compiled with -O. Although the extra
precision helps here, this is accidental and depends on longstanding
gcc precision bugs (not clipping extra precision on assignment...),
and the gcc bugs are mostly avoided by compiling without -O. I now
develop libm mainly on amd64 systems to simplify error detection and
debugging.
17+17+24 bit pi/2 must only be used when subtraction of the first 2
terms in it from the arg is exact. This happens iff the the arg in
bits is one of the 2**17[-1] values on each side of (float)(pi/2).
Revert to the algorithm in rev.1.7 and only fix its threshold for using
the 3-term pi/2. Use the threshold that maximizes the number of values
for which the 3-term pi/2 is used, subject to not changing the algorithm
for comparing with the threshold. The 3-term pi/2 ends up being used
for about half of its usable range (about 64K values on each side).
a maximum error of 2.905 ulps for cosf(), but the algorithm for cosf()
is good for < 1 ulps and happens to give perfect rounding (< 0.5 ulps)
near +-pi/2 except for the bug. The extra relative errors for tanf()
were similar (slightly larger). The bug didn't affect sinf() since
sinf'(+-pi/2) is 0.
For range reduction in ~[-3pi/4, -pi/4] and ~[pi/4, 3pi/4] we must
subtract +-pi/2 and the only complication is that this must be done
in extra precision. We have handy 17+24-bit and 17+17+24-bit
approximations to pi/2. If we always used the former then we would
lose up to 24 bits of accuracy due to cancelation of leading bits, but
we need to keep at least 24 bits plus a guard digit or 2, and should
keep as many guard bits as efficiency permits. So we used the
less-precise pi/2 not very near +-pi/2 and switched to using the
more-precise pi/2 very near +-pi/2. However, we got the threshold for
the switch wrong by allowing 19 bits to cancel, so we ended up with
only 21 or 22 bits of accuracy in some cases, which is even worse than
naively subtracting pi/2 would have done.
Exhaustive checking shows that allowing only 17 bits to cancel (min.
accuracy ~24 bits) is sufficient to reduce the maximum error for cosf()
near +-pi/2 to 0.726 ulps, but allowing only 6 bits to cancel (min.
accuracy ~35-bits) happens to give perfect rounding for cosf() at
little extra cost so we prefer that.
We actually (in effect) allow 0 bits to cancel and always use the
17+17+24-bit pi/2 (min. accuracy ~41 bits). This is simpler and
probably always more efficient too. Classifying args to avoid using
this pi/2 when it is not needed takes several extra integer operations
and a branch, but just using it takes only 1 FP operation.
The patch also fixes misspelling of 17 as 24 in many comments.
For the double-precision version, the magic numbers include 33+53 bits
for the less-precise pi/2 and (53-32-1 = 20) bits being allowed to
cancel, so there are ~33-20 = 13 guard bits. This is sufficient except
probably for perfect rounding. The more-precise pi/2 has 33+33+53
bits and we still waste time classifying args to avoid using it.
The bug is apparently from mistranslation of the magic 32 in 53-32-1.
The number of bits allowed to cancel is not critical and we use 32 for
double precision because it allows efficient classification using a
32-bit comparison. For float precision, we must use an explicit mask,
and there are fewer bits so there is less margin for error in their
allocation. The 32 got reduced to 4 but should have been reduced
almost in proportion to the reduction of mantissa bits.
to doubles as bits. fdlibm-1.1 had similar aliasing bugs, but these
were fixed by NetBSD or Cygnus before a modified version of fdlibm was
imported in 1994. TRUNC() is only used by tgamma() and some
implementation-detail functions. The aliasing bugs were detected by
compiling with gcc -O2 but don't seem to have broken tgamma() on i386's
or amd64's. They broke my modified version of tgamma().
Moved the definition of TRUNC() to mathimpl.h so that it can be fixed
in one place, although the general version is even slower than necessary
because it has to operate on pointers to volatiles to handle its arg
sometimes being volatile. Inefficiency of the fdlibm macros slows
down libm generally, and tgamma() is a relatively unimportant part of
libm. The macros act as if on 32-bit words in memory, so they are
hard to optimize to direct actions on 64-bit double registers for
(non-i386) machines where this is possible. The optimization is too
hard for gcc on amd64's, and declaring variables as volatile makes it
impossible.
floating-point arithmetic on i386. Now I'm going to make excuses
for why this code is kinda scary:
- To avoid breaking the ABI with 5.3-RELEASE, we can't change
sizeof(fenv_t). I stuck the saved mxcsr in some discontiguous
reserved bits in the existing structure.
- Attempting to access the mxcsr on older processors results
in an illegal instruction exception, so support for SSE must
be detected at runtime. (The extra baggage is optimized away
if either the application or libm is compiled with -msse{,2}.)
I didn't run tests to ensure that this doesn't SIGILL on older 486's
lacking the cpuid instruction or on other processors lacking SSE.
Results from running the fenv regression test on these processors
would be appreciated. (You'll need to compile the test with
-DNO_STRICT_DFL_ENV.) If you have an 80386, or if your processor
supports SSE but the kernel didn't enable it, then you're probably out
of luck.
Also, I un-inlined some of the functions that grew larger as a result
of this change, moving them from fenv.h to fenv.c.
fedisableexcept(), and fegetexcept(). These two sets of routines
provide the same functionality. I implemented the former as an
undocumented internal interface to make the regression test easier to
write. However, fe(enable|disable|get)except() is already part of
glibc, and I would like to avoid gratuitous differences. The only
major flaw in the glibc API is that there's no good way to report
errors on processors that don't support all the unmasked exceptions.
particularly good reason to do this, except that __strong_reference
does type checking, whereas __weak_reference does not.
On Alpha, the compiler won't accept a 'long double' parameter in
place of a 'double' parameter even thought the two types are
identical.
an invalid exception and return an NaN.
- If a long double has 113 bits of precision, implement fma in terms
of simple long double arithmetic instead of complicated double arithmetic.
- If a long double is the same as a double, alias fma as fmal.
identical to scalbnf, which is now aliased as ldexpf. Note that the
old implementations made the mistake of setting errno and were the
only libm routines to do so.
- Add nexttoward{,f,l} and nextafterl. On all platforms,
nexttowardl is an alias for nextafterl.
- Add fmal.
- Add man pages for new routines: fmal, nextafterl,
nexttoward{,f,l}, scalb{,l}nl.
Note that on platforms where long double is the same as double, we
generally just alias the double versions of the routines, since doing
so avoids extra work on the source code level and redundant code in
the binary. In particular:
ldbl53 ldbl64/113
fmal s_fma.c s_fmal.c
ldexpl s_scalbn.c s_scalbnl.c
nextafterl s_nextafter.c s_nextafterl.c
nexttoward s_nextafter.c s_nexttoward.c
nexttowardf s_nexttowardf.c s_nexttowardf.c
nexttowardl s_nextafter.c s_nextafterl.c
scalbnl s_scalbn.c s_scalbnl.c
sparc64's 128-bit long doubles.
- Define FP_FAST_FMAL for ia64.
- Prototypes for fmal, frexpl, ldexpl, nextafterl, nexttoward{,f,l},
scalblnl, and scalbnl.
- In scalbln and scalblnf, check the bounds of the second argument.
This is probably unnecessary, but strictly speaking, we should
report an error if someone tries to compute scalbln(x, INT_MAX + 1ll).
nexttowardl. These are not needed on machines where long doubles
look like IEEE-754 doubles, so the implementation only supports
the usual long double formats with 15-bit exponents.
Anything bizarre, such as machines where floating-point and integer
data have different endianness, will cause problems. This is the case
with big endian ia64 according to libc/ia64/_fpmath.h. Please contact
me if you managed to get a machine running this way.
that are intended to raise underflow and inexact exceptions.
- On systems where long double is the same as double, nextafter
should be aliased as nexttoward, nexttowardl, and nextafterl.
Symptoms of the problem included assembler warnings and
nondeterministic runtime behavior when a fe*() call that affects the
fpsr is closely followed by a float point op.
The bug (at least, I think it's a bug) is that gcc does not insert a
break between a volatile asm and a dependent instruction if the
volatile asm came from an inlined function. Volatile asms seem to be
fine in other circumstances, even without -mvolatile-asm-stop, so
perhaps the compiler adds the stop bits before inlining takes place.
The problem does not occur at -O0 because inlining is disabled, and it
doesn't happen at -O2 because -fschedule-insns2 knows better.
inputs. The trouble with replacing two floats with a double is that
the latter has 6 extra bits of precision, which actually hurts
accuracy in many cases. All of the constants are optimal when float
arithmetic is used, and would need to be recomputed to do this right.
Noticed by: bde (ucbtest)
results in a performance gain on the order of 10% for amd64 (sledge),
ia64 (pluto1), i386+SSE (Pentium 4), and sparc64 (panther), and a
negligible improvement for i386 without SSE. (The i386 port still
uses the hardware instruction, though.)
manpages. They are not very related, so separating them makes it
easier to add meaningful cross-references and extend some of the
descriptions.
- Move the part of math(3) that discusses IEEE 754 to the ieee(3)
manpage.
- Rearrange the list of functions into categories.
- Remove the ulps column. It was appropriate for only some
of the functions in the list, and correct for even fewer
of them.
- Add some new paragraphs, and remove some old ones about
NaNs that may do more harm than good.
- Document precisions other than double-precision.
flags, so they are not pure. Remove the __pure2 annotation from them.
I believe that the following routines and their float and long double
counterparts are the only ones here that can be __pure2:
copysign is* fabs finite fmax fmin fpclassify ilogb nan signbit
When gcc supports FENV_ACCESS, perhaps there will be a new annotation
that allows the other functions to be considered pure when FENV_ACCESS
is off.
Discussed with: bde
basically support this, subject to gcc's lack of FENV_ACCESS support.
In any case, the previous setting of math_errhandling to 0 is not
allowed by POSIX.
registers as volatile. Instructions that *wrote* to FP state were
already marked volatile, but apparently gcc has license to move
non-volatile asms past volatile asms. This broke amd64's feupdateenv
at -O2 due to a WAR conflict between fnstsw and fldenv there.
- Make some minor rearrangements in the introduction.
- Mention the problem with argument reduction on i386.
- Add recently-implemented functions to the table.
- Un-document the error bounds that only apply to the old 4BSD math
library, and fill in the correct values where I know them. No
attempt has been made to document bounds lower than 1 ulp, although
smaller bounds are usually achievable in round-to-nearest mode.
/lib/{libm,libreadline}
/usr/lib/{libhistory,libopie,libpcap}
in preparation for doing the same thing to RELENG_5. HUGE amounts of
help for determining what to bump provided by kris.
Discussed on: freebsd-current
Approved by: re (not required for commit but something like this should be)
libc. The externally-visible effect of this is to add __isnanl() to
libm, which means that libm.so.2 can once again link against libc.so.4
when LD_BIND_NOW is set. This was broken by the addition of fdiml(),
which calls __isnanl().
- It was added to libc instead of libm. Hopefully no programs rely
on this mistake.
- It didn't work properly on large long doubles because its argument
was converted to type double, resulting in undefined behavior.
- Unlike the builtin relational operators, builtin floating-point
constants were not available until gcc 3.3, so account for this.[1]
- Apparently some versions of the Intel C Compiler fallaciously define
__GNUC__ without actually being compatible with the claimed gcc
version. Account for this, too.[2]
[1] Noticed by: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>
[2] Submitted by: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
isnormal() the hard way, rather than relying on fpclassify(). This is
a lose in the sense that we need a total of 12 functions, but it is
necessary for binary compatibility because we have never bumped libm's
major version number. In particular, isinf(), isnan(), and isnanf()
were BSD libc functions before they were C99 macros, so we can't
reimplement them in terms of fpclassify() without adding a dependency
on libc.so.5. I have tried to arrange things so that programs that
could be compiled in FreeBSD 4.X will generate the same external
references when compiled in 5.X. At the same time, the new macros
should remain C99-compliant.
The isinf() and isnan() functions remain in libc for historical
reasons; however, I have moved the functions that implement the macros
isfinite() and isnormal() to libm where they belong. Moreover,
half a dozen MD versions of isinf() and isnan() have been replaced
with MI versions that work equally well.
Prodded by: kris
builtins are available: HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL, INFINITY,
and NAN. These macros now expand to floating-point constant
expressions rather than external references, as required by C99.
Other compilers will retain the historical behavior. Note that
it is not possible say, e.g.
#define HUGE_VAL 1.0e9999
because the above may result in diagnostics at translation time
and spurious exceptions at runtime. Hence the need for compiler
support for these features.
Also use builtins to implement the macros isgreater(),
isgreaterequal(), isless(), islessequal(), islessgreater(),
and isunordered() when such builtins are available.
Although the old macros are correct, the builtin versions
are much faster, and they avoid double-expansion problems.
These trivial implementations are about 25 times slower than
rint{,f}() on x86 due to the FP environment save/restore.
They should eventually be redone in terms of fegetround() and
bit fiddling.
These routines are specified in C99 for the sake of
architectures where an int isn't big enough to represent
the full range of floating-point exponents. However,
even the 128-bit long double format has an exponent smaller
than 15 bits, so for all practical purposes, scalbln() and
scalblnf() are aliases for scalbn() and scalbnf(), respectively.
kicking and screaming into the 1980's. This change converts most of
the markup from man(7) to mdoc(7) format, and I believe it removes or
updates everything that was flat out wrong. However, much work is
still needed to sanitize the markup, improve coverage, and reduce
overlap with other manpages. Some of the sections would better belong
in a philosophy_of_w_kahan.3 manpage, but they are informative and
remain at least as reminders of topics to cover.
Reviewed by: doc@, trhodes@
on all inputs of the form x.75, where x is an even integer and
log2(x) = 21. A similar problem occurred when rounding upward.
The bug involves the following snippet copied from rint():
i>>=1;
if((i0&i)!=0) i0 = (i0&(~i))|((0x100000)>>j0);
The constant 0x100000 should be 0x200000. Apparently this case was
never tested.
It turns out that the bit manipulation is completely superfluous
anyway, so remove it. (It tries to simulate 90% of the rounding
process that the FPU does anyway.) Also, the special case of +-0 is
handled twice (in different ways), so remove the second instance.
Throw in some related simplifications from bde:
- Work around a bug where gcc fails to clip to float precision by
declaring two float variables as volatile. Previously, we
tricked gcc into generating correct code by declaring some
float constants as doubles.
- Remove additional superfluous bit manipulation.
- Minor reorganization.
- Include <sys/types.h> explicitly.
Note that some of the equivalent lines in rint() also appear to be
unnecessary, but I'll defer to the numerical analysts who wrote it,
since I can't test all 2^64 cases.
Discussed with: bde
