On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen <stephen_at_missouri.edu> wrote: > On 07/15/2018 02:09 PM, Warner Losh wrote: >> I'm not saying that he has a lock. I'm saying he's are domain expert and >> many mistakes can be avoided by talking to him. >> >> I'm saying we have history here, and that history, while poorly documented, >> wasn't followed. To the extent it is poorly documented, we should fix that. >> >> Warner >> > I agree that we should document the process. Maybe also include > freebsd-numerics_at_ on these discussions, as that is why it was created. > > But I'm really glad these changes were committed. I have found the > people tend to drag their feet a lot on numerics issues. > > Has anyone done an analysis of the OpenBSD powl functions from an > accuracy point of view? That is, to test how many ULP of error these > functions have? If not, I could give it a go, although not for several > months because life is very busy. They're also used by Julia. You might ask there first. -MReceived on Sun Jul 15 2018 - 19:00:40 UTC
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