>>> Eitan Adler 14-Feb-18 08:09 >>> > > Hi all, > > you may want the following patch. Previous discussion: > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-numerics/2018-February/thread.html > > Original submission: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/130 > > > === > > As a component of atan2(y, x), the case of x == 1.0 is farmed out to > atan(y). The current implementation of this comparison is vulnerable > to signed integer underflow (that is, undefined behavior), and it's > performed in a somewhat more complicated way than it need be. Change > it to not be quite so cute, rather directly comparing the high/low > bits of x to the specific IEEE-754 bit pattern that encodes 1.0. > > Note that while there are three different e_atan* files in the > relevant directory, only this one needs fixing. e_atan2f.c already > compares against the full bit pattern encoding 1.0f, while > e_atan2l.cuses bitwise-ands/ors/nots and so doesn't require a change. > === > > > > Index: e_atan2.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libm/src/e_atan2.c,v > retrieving revision 1.13 > diff -u -r1.13 e_atan2.c > --- e_atan2.c 12 Sep 2016 19:47:02 -0000 1.13 > +++ e_atan2.c 14 Feb 2018 08:06:05 -0000 > @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ > if(((ix|((lx|-lx)>>31))>0x7ff00000)|| > ((iy|((ly|-ly)>>31))>0x7ff00000)) /* x or y is NaN */ > return x+y; > - if(((hx-0x3ff00000)|lx)==0) return atan(y); /* x=1.0 */ > + if(hx==0x3ff00000&&lx==0) return atan(y); /* x=1.0 */
Wouldn't it work just as well, with fewer jumps, and match the original intent, to replace the subtraction with xor? if(((hx^0x3ff00000)|lx)==0) return atan(y); /* x=1.0 */ > m = ((hy>>31)&1)|((hx>>30)&2); /* 2*sign(x)+sign(y) */ > > /* when y = 0 */ > > Tom
