#19797: Build GSL in IEEE 754 compliant mode
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       Reporter:  jdemeyer           |        Owner:
           Type:  enhancement        |       Status:  new
       Priority:  major              |    Milestone:  sage-7.0
      Component:  packages:          |   Resolution:
  standard                           |    Merged in:
       Keywords:                     |    Reviewers:
        Authors:  Jeroen Demeyer     |  Work issues:
Report Upstream:  Reported           |       Commit:
  upstream. Developers acknowledge   |  694feb2d71ebf521cf5f32dba69e0406d16e9f11
  bug.                               |     Stopgaps:
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  u/jdemeyer/ticket/19797            |
   Dependencies:  #19796             |
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Comment (by rws):

 Replying to [comment:10 vbraun]:
 > And not of the form `1+abs(...)` and so on
 This can be fixed in `GiNaC::abs_eval()`

 > Automatically expanding isn't good enough either in general:
 > {{{
 > sage: x = var('x', domain='real')
 > sage: ((exp(I*x)+exp(-I*x))^4).abs().expand()
 > e^(4*I*x) + 4*e^(2*I*x) + 4*e^(-2*I*x) + e^(-4*I*x) + 6
 > }}}
 Why not? This is real as well and could be rewritten as a sum of trig
 function expressions.

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