On Jan 28, 2014, at 6:38 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
> It is not appropriate for a GCC or GLIBC maintainer to impose behavior
So, let's ask the direct question, do you oppose making -mieee conforming to
ieee? If not, they the fixes in question seem like they should be turned on
with -mieee, and
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> It is appropriate for glibc maintainers to seek consensus in the glibc
> community on minimum requirements for glibc ports, just as on any other
> question about what is or is not supported in glibc. For example, it is
> presently expected that a p
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, David Edelsohn wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Joseph S. Myers
> wrote:
>
> > The glibc libm testsuite has much more thorough coverage (hopefully soon
> > to include running all tests in all rounding modes by default) than it did
> > two years ago, and it's a pain
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Joseph S. Myers
wrote:
> The glibc libm testsuite has much more thorough coverage (hopefully soon
> to include running all tests in all rounding modes by default) than it did
> two years ago, and it's a pain to keep test results clean across all
> architectures wh
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, David Edelsohn wrote:
> Joseph,
>
> Adding the various tests for overflow slows down some other code where
> performance is important. Explicitly changing rounding mode would be
> even more invasive and have significant performance impact.
>
> This long double format never
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Joseph S. Myers
wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, David Edelsohn wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Joseph S. Myers
>> wrote:
>> > This patch fixes various cases of spurious overflow exceptions in the
>> > IBM long double support code. The generic issue is
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, David Edelsohn wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Joseph S. Myers
> wrote:
> > This patch fixes various cases of spurious overflow exceptions in the
> > IBM long double support code. The generic issue is that an initial
> > approximation is computed by using the releva
