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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2013-03-07 13:23:07 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2013-03-07 13:23:07 +0530
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Merge powerpc slowpow.c into generic code
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diff --git a/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/slowpow.c b/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/slowpow.c
index cccc7e32c2..a379728b14 100644
--- a/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/slowpow.c
+++ b/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/slowpow.c
@@ -59,6 +59,23 @@ __slowpow (double x, double y, double z)
if (res >= 0)
return res;
+ /* Compute pow as long double. This is currently only used by powerpc, where
+ one may get 106 bits of accuracy. */
+#ifdef USE_LONG_DOUBLE_FOR_MP
+ long double ldw, ldz, ldpp;
+ static const long double ldeps = 0x4.0p-96;
+
+ ldz = __ieee754_logl ((long double) x);
+ ldw = (long double) y *ldz;
+ ldpp = __ieee754_expl (ldw);
+ res = (double) (ldpp + ldeps);
+ res1 = (double) (ldpp - ldeps);
+
+ /* Return the result if it is accurate enough. */
+ if (res == res1)
+ return res;
+#endif
+
/* Or else, calculate using multiple precision. P = 10 implies accuracy of
240 bits accuracy, since MP_NO has a radix of 2^24. */
p = 10;