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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-05-23 22:04:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-05-25 15:46:44 +0200 |
| commit | 831db5db46787debcc3cd130b43e9979694c8cce (patch) | |
| tree | 5e94ea9f740157dcf4b30f11a14b53cda2754f76 /man3 | |
| parent | 427e4505b035f560284ede380e05526b7f877e4e (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-831db5db46787debcc3cd130b43e9979694c8cce.tar.gz | |
pow.3: Several bugs in glibc's pow() implementation were fixed in glibc 2.16
See https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3866.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/pow.3 | 26 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/man3/pow.3 b/man3/pow.3 index e0632cf79c..8a9857a060 100644 --- a/man3/pow.3 +++ b/man3/pow.3 @@ -345,6 +345,12 @@ This problem was fixed .\" commit c3d466cba1692708a19c6ff829d0386c83a0c6e5 in glibc 2.28. .PP +A number of bugs +.\" http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3866 +in the glibc implementation of +.BR pow () +were fixed in glibc version 2.16. +.PP In glibc 2.9 and earlier, .\" .\" http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6776 @@ -359,26 +365,6 @@ Since version 2.10, .\" and I don't have a 2.9 system to test glibc does the right thing. .PP -If -.I x -is negative, -then large negative or positive -.I y -values yield a NaN as the function result, with -.I errno -set to -.BR EDOM , -and an invalid -.RB ( FE_INVALID ) -floating-point exception. -For example, with -.BR pow (), -one sees this behavior when the absolute value of -.I y -is greater than about 9.223373e18. -.\" see bug http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3866 -.\" and http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=369 -.PP In version 2.3.2 and earlier, .\" FIXME . Actually, 2.3.2 is the earliest test result I have; so yet .\" to confirm if this error occurs only in 2.3.2. |