1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
|
Copyright 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Contributed by the Arenaire and Cacao projects, INRIA.
This file is part of the MPFR Library.
The MPFR Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
The MPFR Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public
License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with the MPFR Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston,
MA 02110-1301, USA.
##############################################################################
Probably many bugs.
Known bugs:
* The overflow/underflow exceptions may be badly handled in some functions;
specially when the intermediary internal results have exponent which
exceeds the hardware limit (2^30 for a 32 bits CPU, and 2^62 for a 64 bits
CPU).
* Under Linux/x86 with the traditional FPU, some functions do not work
if the FPU rounding precision has been changed to single (this is a
bad practice and should be useless, but one never knows what other
software will do).
* Some functions do not use MPFR_SAVE_EXPO_* macros, thus do not behave
correctly in a reduced exponent range.
Potential bugs:
* Possible integer overflows on some machines.
* Possible bugs with huge precisions (> 2^30).
* Possible bugs if the chosen exponent range does not allow to represent
the range [1/16, 16].
* Possible infinite loop in some functions for particular cases: when
the exact result is an exactly representable number or the middle of
consecutive two such numbers. However for non-algebraic functions, it is
believed that no such case exists, except the well-known cases like cos(0)=1,
exp(0)=1, and so on, and the x^y function when y is an integer or y=1/2^k.
* The mpfr_set_ld function may be quite slow if the long double type has an
exponent of more than 15 bits.
* mpfr_set_d may give wrong results on some non-IEEE architectures.
* Error analysis for some functions may be incorrect (out-of-date due
to modifications in the code?).
|
