- 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.
- 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.
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@
in math.h; the consensus here was that __BSD_VISIBLE was correct instead.
- gamma_r, lgamma_r, gammaf_r, and lgammaf_r had no documentation in the
lgamma(3) manpage.
Reviewed by: standards@
Submitted by: Ben Mesander
page and add an historical note explaining this. This patch is
based on Stephen's.
We still need someone to implement tgamma.
PR: 28972, 31764
Submitted by: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
describing these operators in English. This completes the fix in rev.1.3
(rev.1.2 got this wrong by describing wrong operators in English).
Fixed bitrot and improved English in the DESCRIPTION section.
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.
Fixed description of domain of y*().
Fixed description of error domain. (This description is still half
redundant and half wrong, as in many other math man pages. fdlibm
doesn't support the VAX or Tahoe.)
Fixed capitalization of `Bessel'.
-- 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
