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Re: Interaction between rounding direction and trigonometric functions


Pete,
Would you please update the bugzilla to indicate the results you found as well?

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Pete Eberlein
<eberlein@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 13:43 -0500, Ryan Arnold wrote:
>
>> Did you address some issues in the GLIBC bugzilla regarding rounding direction?
>
> The issue I looked at was for printf checking rounding mode:
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5044
>
> This issue with cos appears to be unrelated. I didn't find any bugs on
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ searching for "round cos".  This
> looks like a candidate for a new bug.
>
> Also, here are the results for SLES10 SP1, Power6, using Advance
> Toolchain GLIBC 2.8, GCC 4.3.1, again very wrong:
>
> theta = 5.27906
> sin(theta) = -0.843695
> cos(theta) = 0.536822
> Repeating after setting the rounding direction to UPWARD:
> theta = 5.27906
> sin(theta) = -0.0702948
> cos(theta) = 9.55255
>
> --
> Pete Eberlein
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> Linux for Power Toolchain
>
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