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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2018-11-26 14:59:35 -0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2018-11-26 14:59:35 -0800
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Correctly document the BR 3392368 fix, add test case
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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@@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ operator refers to an \c{EXTERN} symbol declared further down in the
code.
\b Fix a corner case in the floating-point code where a
-binary/octal/hexadecimal floating-point constant starting with the
-digit 1 and having at least 33 mantissa bits would sometimes produce
-incorrect results.
+binary/octal/hexadecimal floating-point constant starting with a digit
+for which the upper bit is 1 (1, 4-7, 8-F respectively) and having at
+least 33 mantissa bits would sometimes produce incorrect results for
+the quad-precision format.
\S{cl-2.14} Version 2.14