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[3/3] Add new pow implementation

Message ID c1ebd1fc-e673-8326-95ef-85580dd491b7@arm.com
State New, archived
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Szabolcs Nagy Sept. 19, 2018, 9:19 a.m. UTC 
  On 17/09/18 23:19, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> 
>> +/* Returns 0 if not int, 1 if odd int, 2 if even int.  */
>> +static inline int
>> +checkint (uint64_t iy)
> 
> The comment needs to explain that this function is not called with an
> argument representing floating-point 0, Inf or NaN (since it wouldn't be
> correct for 0 at least).
> 
> OK with that change.
> 

Thanks for the reviews, i committed the patch and
separately fixed the comment in powf too in the
same way with the attached obvious patch.
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Patch

From d734727837b5135c4c4c540d8c53e5a06aa7556a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:09:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix the documentation comment of checkint in powf

checkint in powf is not supposed to be used with 0, inf or nan inputs.

	* sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/e_powf.c (checkint): Fix documentation.
---
 ChangeLog                       | 4 ++++
 sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/e_powf.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 57ba532bd6..cecbdf4985 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ 
+2018-09-19  Szabolcs Nagy  <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
+
+	* sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/e_powf.c (checkint): Fix documentation.
+
 2018-09-19  Szabolcs Nagy  <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
 
 	* NEWS: Mention pow improvements.
diff --git a/sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/e_powf.c b/sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/e_powf.c
index ece83f0dd2..d0c912188f 100644
--- a/sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/e_powf.c
+++ b/sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/e_powf.c
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@  exp2_inline (double_t xd, uint32_t sign_bias)
   return y;
 }
 
-/* Returns 0 if not int, 1 if odd int, 2 if even int.  */
+/* Returns 0 if not int, 1 if odd int, 2 if even int.  The argument is
+   the bit representation of a non-zero finite floating-point value.  */
 static inline int
 checkint (uint32_t iy)
 {
-- 
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