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[Bug math/14273] cosh() returns incorrect results


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14273

--- Comment #4 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell at mentor dot com> 2012-06-21 16:31:10 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> If the concern is about possibly introducing a new bug, I can see holding off
> on this. But if it's just that fixing the bug imposes an excessive maintainer's
> burden due to policy, then what you're effectively saying is that policy tells
> you to make a buggy release even though you know the change would be safe... To
> me, that seems like buggy policy.

The policy in this case is to keep the test results from regressing, which is
an important policy to have for a stable branch. Do we agree on that?

I would accept the patch, but such a patch would have to show it passes on all
machines that use this code (as opposed to the trunk criteria which would
probably be less strict), and update ULPs on all of those machines (more strict
than trunk again). It's a lot of work, but I guess if someone is willing to do
the work and show the test results, then I see no reason why not to backport
the patch.

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