bug in logarithm()

Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
Wed Oct 17 22:45:00 GMT 2007


Martin Koeppe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just found a bug (or at least a discrepancy between doc and src) in 
> newlib's libm, files mathfp/s_logarithm.c and mathfp/sf_logarithm.c:
>
> There the docs at the beginning of the files say, log(0) returns -Inf, 
> what the gawk test suite would also expect btw, but clearly the 
> implementation doesn't return -Inf, but NaN instead.
>
> Martin
A fix has been made.  Thanks.

-- Jeff J.



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