[perl #122571] sqrt() and sin() broken in AIX with long doubles

On Sun Aug 31 08:58:00 2014, jhi wrote:
> I opened a new ticket (122668) because the combination of long doubles 
> and infinity can be so broken in AIX.  The brokenness, if present, is 
> detected dynamically in hints/aix.sh, in an upcoming change, and if 
> detected, long doubles is disabled.
> 
> If, however, long doubles still seem valid in AIX, another set of 
> upcoming patches fixes sqrt and sin by (a) implementing pp_sin (which 
> implements sqrt etc) a bit different by not using function pointers (b) 
> by removing the tests from t/op/exp.t that depend on testing trig 

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/af71714e5ef5109f8a41bdcfe59da43540fcd651

and

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/402bce5fcde176134b212beb8662ea0e2c5ce993

Though https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122668 still applies: long doubles seem to be quite broken in AIX, and can often (always?) be disabled, by the AIX hints.


> functions "very near" pi/-pi (c) dynamically detecting the potential 
> brokenness of powl() in AIX (a known issue) and using a workaround for it.
> >
> 




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https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122571

• [perl #122571] sqrt() and sin() broken in AIX with long doubles by Jarkko Hietaniemi via RT
• Re: [perl #122571] sqrt() and sin() broken in AIX with long doubles by Michael Felt
• Re: [perl #122571] sqrt() and sin() broken in AIX with long doubles by Michael Felt
• Re: [perl #122571] sqrt() and sin() broken in AIX with long doubles by H.Merijn Brand