History log of /freebsd-9.3-release/lib/msun/ld128/
Revision Date Author Comments
267654 20-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


225736 23-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


222508 30-May-2011 kargl

Clean up the unneeded cpp macro INLINE_REM_PIO2L.

Reviewed by: das
Approved by: das (mentor)


221234 29-Apr-2011 kargl

Improve the accuracy from a max ULP of ~2000 to max ULP < 0.79
on i386-class hardware for sinl and cosl. The hand-rolled argument
reduction have been replaced by e_rem_pio2l() implementations. To
preserve history the following commands have been executed:

svn cp src/e_rem_pio2.c ld80/e_rem_pio2l.h
mv ${HOME}/bde/ld80/e_rem_pio2l.c ld80/e_rem_pio2l.h

svn cp src/e_rem_pio2.c ld128/e_rem_pio2l.h
mv ${HOME}/bde/ld128/e_rem_pio2l.c ld128/e_rem_pio2l.h

The ld80 version has been tested by bde, das, and kargl over the
last few years (bde, das) and few months (kargl). An older ld128
version was tested by das. The committed version has only been
compiled tested via 'make universe'.

Approved by: das (mentor)
Obtained from: bde


181074 31-Jul-2008 das

Add implementations of acosl(), asinl(), atanl(), atan2l(),
and cargl().

Reviewed by: bde
sparc64 testing resources from: remko


176747 02-Mar-2008 das

1 << 47 needs to be written 1ULL << 47.


176358 17-Feb-2008 das

Add kernel functions for 128-bit long doubles. These could be improved
a bit, but access to a freebsd/sparc64 machine is needed.

Submitted by: bde and Steve Kargl <sgk@apl.washington.edu> (earlier version)


176231 13-Feb-2008 bde

Fix exp2*(x) on signaling NaNs by returning x+x as usual.

This has the side effect of confusing gcc-4.2.1's optimizer into more
often doing the right thing. When it does the wrong thing here, it
seems to be mainly making too many copies of x with dependency chains.
This effect is tiny on amd64, but in some cases on i386 it is enormous.
E.g., on i386 (A64) with -O1, the current version of exp2() should
take about 50 cycles, but took 83 cycles before this change and 66
cycles after this change. exp2f() with -O1 only speeded up from 51
to 47 cycles. (exp2f() should take about 40 cycles, on an Athlon in
either i386 or amd64 mode, and now takes 42 on amd64). exp2l() with
-O1 slowed down from 155 cycles to 123 for some args; this is unimportant
since the i386 exp2l() is a fake; the wrong thing for it seems to
involve branch misprediction.


176074 07-Feb-2008 bde

Use a better method of scaling by 2**k. Instead of adding to the
exponent bits of the reduced result, construct 2**k (hopefully in
parallel with the construction of the reduced result) and multiply by
it. This tends to be much faster if the construction of 2**k is
actually in parallel, and might be faster even with no parallelism
since adjustment of the exponent requires a read-modify-wrtite at an
unfortunate time for pipelines.

In some cases involving exp2* on amd64 (A64), this change saves about
40 cycles or 30%. I think it is inherently only about 12 cycles faster
in these cases and the rest of the speedup is from partly-accidentally
avoiding compiler pessimizations (the construction of 2**k is now
manually scheduled for good results, and -O2 doesn't always mess this
up). In most cases on amd64 (A64) and i386 (A64) the speedup is about
20 cycles. The worst case that I found is expf on ia64 where this
change is a pessimization of about 10 cycles or 5%. The manual
scheduling for plain exp[f] is harder and not as tuned.

This change ld128/s_exp2l.c has not been tested.


175460 18-Jan-2008 das

Implement exp2l(). There is one version for machines with 80-bit
long doubles (i386, amd64, ia64) and one for machines with 128-bit
long doubles (sparc64). Other platforms use the double version.
I've only done runtime testing on i386.

Thanks to bde@ for helpful discussions and bugfixes.


174759 18-Dec-2007 das

Since nan() is supposed to work the same as strtod("nan(...)", NULL),
my original implementation made both use the same code. Unfortunately,
this meant libm depended on a vendor header at compile time and previously-
unexposed vendor bits in libc at runtime.

Hence, I just wrote my own version of the relevant vendor routine. As it
turns out, mine has a factor of 8 fewer of lines of code, and is a bit more
readable anyway. The strtod() and *scanf() routines still use vendor code.

Reviewed by: bde


174684 16-Dec-2007 das

Implement and document nan(), nanf(), and nanl(). This commit
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.