Szabolcs NagyandRich Felker
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the freebsd fma code failed to raise underflow exception in some cases in nearest rounding mode (affects fmal too) e.g. fma(-0x1p-1000, 0x1.000001p-74, 0x1p-1022) and the inexact exception may be raised spuriously since the fenv is not saved/restored around the exact multiplication algorithm (affects x86 fma too). another issue is that the underflow behaviour when the rounded result is the minimal normal number is target dependent, ieee754 allows two ways to raise underflow for inexact results: raise if the result before rounding is in the subnormal range (e.g. aarch64, arm, powerpc) or if the result after rounding with infinite exponent range is in the subnormal range (e.g. x86, mips, sh). to avoid all these issues the algorithm was rewritten with mostly int arithmetics and float arithmetics is only used to get correct rounding and raise exceptions according to the behaviour of the target without any fenv.h dependency. it also unifies x86 and non-x86 fma. fmaf is not affected, fmal need to be fixed too. this algorithm depends on a_clz_64 and it required a few spurious instructions to make sure underflow exception is raised in a particular corner case. (normally FORCE_EVAL(tiny*tiny) would be used for this, but on i386 gcc is broken if the expression is constant https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57245 and there is no easy portable fix for the macro.)
musl libc
musl, pronounced like the word "mussel", is an MIT-licensed
implementation of the standard C library targetting the Linux syscall
API, suitable for use in a wide range of deployment environments. musl
offers efficient static and dynamic linking support, lightweight code
and low runtime overhead, strong fail-safe guarantees under correct
usage, and correctness in the sense of standards conformance and
safety. musl is built on the principle that these goals are best
achieved through simple code that is easy to understand and maintain.
The 1.1 release series for musl features coverage for all interfaces
defined in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base, along with a number of
non-standardized interfaces for compatibility with Linux, BSD, and
glibc functionality.
For basic installation instructions, see the included INSTALL file.
Information on full musl-targeted compiler toolchains, system
bootstrapping, and Linux distributions built on musl can be found on
the project website:
http://www.musl-libc.org/