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a conforming compiler for an arch with excess precision floating point (FLT_EVAL_METHOD!=0; presently i386 is the only such arch supported) computes all intermediate results in the types float_t and double_t rather than the nominal type of the expression. some incorrect compilers, however, only keep excess precision in registers, and convert down to the nominal type when spilling intermediate results to memory, yielding unpredictable results that depend on the compiler's choices of what/when to spill. in particular, this happens on old gcc versions with -ffloat-store, which we need in order to work around bugs where the compiler wrongly keeps explicitly-dropped excess precision. by explicitly converting to double_t where expressions are expected be be evaluated in double_t precision, we can avoid depending on the compiler to get types correct when spilling; the nominal and intermediate precision now match. this commit should not change the code generated by correct compilers, or by old ones on non-i386 archs where double_t is defined as double. this fixes a serious bug in argument reduction observed on i386 with gcc 4.2: for values of x outside the unit circle, sin(x) was producing results outside the interval [-1,1]. changes made in commit 0ce946cf808274c2d6e5419b139e130c8ad4bd30 were likely responsible for breaking compatibility with this and other old gcc versions. patch by Szabolcs Nagy.
musl libc
musl, pronounced like the word "mussel", is an MIT-licensed
implementation of the standard C library targetting the Linux syscall
API, suitable for use in a wide range of deployment environments. musl
offers efficient static and dynamic linking support, lightweight code
and low runtime overhead, strong fail-safe guarantees under correct
usage, and correctness in the sense of standards conformance and
safety. musl is built on the principle that these goals are best
achieved through simple code that is easy to understand and maintain.
The 1.1 release series for musl features coverage for all interfaces
defined in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base, along with a number of
non-standardized interfaces for compatibility with Linux, BSD, and
glibc functionality.
For basic installation instructions, see the included INSTALL file.
Information on full musl-targeted compiler toolchains, system
bootstrapping, and Linux distributions built on musl can be found on
the project website:
http://www.musl-libc.org/