On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:36:19PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 10 Oct, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:10:44PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> >> 
> >> This is a terrible example in that its impossible to tell what
> >> happened, but it sure shows that something is wrong.
> >> 
> >> Is there a floating point regression suite that you can point me at?
> >> That would be more useful for debugging.  
> >> 
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.netlib.org/fp/ucbtest.tgz
> > 
> > This is Kahan and his students floating point testsuite.
> > It normally check for conformance to IEEE-754.
> 
> For something a bit older, see <http://www.netlib.org/paranoia/>.
> 
> 

Paranoia only checks things like rounding and epsilon.
ucbtest tests corner cases for the standard intrinsics.
ucbtest should be a much better test of libm than
paranoia.

-- 
Steve

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