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1 Copyright 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Softwa
re Foundation, Inc. | |
2 Contributed by the Arenaire and Cacao projects, INRIA. | |
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4 This file is part of the GNU MPFR Library. | |
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6 The GNU MPFR Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
7 it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by | |
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your | |
9 option) any later version. | |
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11 The GNU MPFR Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but | |
12 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY | |
13 or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public | |
14 License for more details. | |
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16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License | |
17 along with the GNU MPFR Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to | |
18 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, | |
19 MA 02110-1301, USA. | |
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21 ############################################################################## | |
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23 Probably many bugs. | |
24 | |
25 Known bugs: | |
26 | |
27 * The overflow/underflow exceptions may be badly handled in some functions; | |
28 specially when the intermediary internal results have exponent which | |
29 exceeds the hardware limit (2^30 for a 32 bits CPU, and 2^62 for a 64 bits | |
30 CPU) or the exact result is close to an overflow/underflow threshold. | |
31 | |
32 * Under Linux/x86 with the traditional FPU, some functions do not work | |
33 if the FPU rounding precision has been changed to single (this is a | |
34 bad practice and should be useless, but one never knows what other | |
35 software will do). | |
36 | |
37 * Some functions do not use MPFR_SAVE_EXPO_* macros, thus do not behave | |
38 correctly in a reduced exponent range. | |
39 | |
40 * Function hypot gives incorrect result when on the one hand the difference | |
41 between parameters' exponents is near 2*MPFR_EMAX_MAX and on the other hand | |
42 the output precision or the precision of the parameter with greatest | |
43 absolute value is greater than 2*MPFR_EMAX_MAX-4. | |
44 | |
45 Potential bugs: | |
46 | |
47 * Possible incorrect results due to internal underflow, which can lead to | |
48 a huge loss of accuracy while the error analysis doesn't take that into | |
49 account. If the underflow occurs at the last function call (just before | |
50 the MPFR_CAN_ROUND), the result should be correct (or MPFR gets into an | |
51 infinite loop). TODO: check the code and the error analysis. | |
52 | |
53 * Possible integer overflows on some machines. | |
54 | |
55 * Possible bugs with huge precisions (> 2^30). | |
56 | |
57 * Possible bugs if the chosen exponent range does not allow to represent | |
58 the range [1/16, 16]. | |
59 | |
60 * Possible infinite loop in some functions for particular cases: when | |
61 the exact result is an exactly representable number or the middle of | |
62 consecutive two such numbers. However for non-algebraic functions, it is | |
63 believed that no such case exists, except the well-known cases like cos(0)=1, | |
64 exp(0)=1, and so on, and the x^y function when y is an integer or y=1/2^k. | |
65 | |
66 * The mpfr_set_ld function may be quite slow if the long double type has an | |
67 exponent of more than 15 bits. | |
68 | |
69 * mpfr_set_d may give wrong results on some non-IEEE architectures. | |
70 | |
71 * Error analysis for some functions may be incorrect (out-of-date due | |
72 to modifications in the code?). | |
73 | |
74 * Possible use of non-portable feature (pre-C99) of the integer division | |
75 with negative result. | |
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