On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 22:49 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 12:14:42PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > > To really avoid roundoff errors, use mstosbt(ms) instead of SBT_1MS*ms. > > > > The rounding errors when multiplying or dividing by SBT_1MS is not > > severe like it is with SBT_1NS, but the inline functions still do the > > arithmetic more correctly to avoid roundoff error. > BTW mstosbt() and other functions have weird bracing in the formula. I > think that the formula as calculated by the C operator precedence is > fine, i.e. multiplication is done before right shift. But the bracing > is redundand then, because the '()' pair next to the return () braces by > inclusion is tautological. >
Oh, on looking closer, it's not a paste-o, I just didn't put the closing paren where I had intended to for making it clear the shift happens last. (So almost everyone except me is still going to think a fix has redundant parens.) -- Ian _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
