from https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines, commit 04884bd04eac4b251da4026900010ea7d8850edc TOINT_INTRINSICS and EXP_USE_TOINT_NARROW cases are unused. The underflow exception is signaled if the result is in the subnormal range even if the result is exact (e.g. exp2(-1023.0)). code size change: -1672 bytes. benchmark on x86_64 before, after, speedup: -Os: exp rthruput: 12.73 ns/call 6.68 ns/call 1.91x exp latency: 45.78 ns/call 21.79 ns/call 2.1x exp2 rthruput: 6.35 ns/call 5.26 ns/call 1.21x exp2 latency: 26.00 ns/call 16.58 ns/call 1.57x -O3: exp rthruput: 12.75 ns/call 6.73 ns/call 1.89x exp latency: 45.91 ns/call 21.80 ns/call 2.11x exp2 rthruput: 6.47 ns/call 5.40 ns/call 1.2x exp2 latency: 26.03 ns/call 16.54 ns/call 1.57x
gcc did not always drop excess precision according to c99 at assignments before version 4.5 even if -std=c99 was requested which caused badly broken mathematical functions on i386 when FLT_EVAL_METHOD!=0 but STRICT_ASSIGN was not used consistently and it is worked around for old compilers with -ffloat-store so it is no longer needed the new convention is to get the compiler respect c99 semantics and when excess precision is not harmful use float_t or double_t or to specialize code using FLT_EVAL_METHOD
* don't care about inexact flag * use double_t and float_t (faster, smaller, more precise on x86) * exp: underflow when result is zero or subnormal and not -inf * exp2: underflow when result is zero or subnormal and not exact * expm1: underflow when result is zero or subnormal * expl: don't underflow on -inf * exp2: fix incorrect comment * expm1: simplify special case handling and overflow properly * expm1: cleanup final scaling and fix negative left shift ub (twopk)
similar to exp.c cleanup: use scalbnf, don't return excess precision, drop some optimizatoins. exp.c was changed to be more consistent with expf.c code.
overflow and underflow was incorrect when the result was not stored. an optimization for the 0.5*ln2 < |x| < 1.5*ln2 domain was removed. did various cleanups around static constants and made the comments consistent with the code.
zero, one, two, half are replaced by const literals The policy was to use the f suffix for float consts (1.0f), but don't use suffix for long double consts (these consts can be exactly represented as double).
thanks to the hard work of Szabolcs Nagy (nsz), identifying the best (from correctness and license standpoint) implementations from freebsd and openbsd and cleaning them up! musl should now fully support c99 float and long double math functions, and has near-complete complex math support. tgmath should also work (fully on gcc-compatible compilers, and mostly on any c99 compiler). based largely on commit 0376d44a890fea261506f1fc63833e7a686dca19 from nsz's libm git repo, with some additions (dummy versions of a few missing long double complex functions, etc.) by me. various cleanups still need to be made, including re-adding (if they're correct) some asm functions that were dropped.