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| author | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2016-12-16 23:41:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2016-12-16 23:41:00 +0000 |
| commit | 3fdf17926c09fd403dd499005650e148774f1018 (patch) | |
| tree | 35d77595a6a88399449d60caa766d9b06de4beab /manual | |
| parent | ea1bd74defcf9d5291d14972e63105168ca9eb4f (diff) | |
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Document sNaN argument error handling.
TS 18661-1 says that "Whether a signaling NaN input causes a domain error is implementation-defined.". Considering it a domain error would (given glibc's math_errhandling definition) mean setting errno to EDOM. glibc consistently does not set errno for sNaN inputs (unless it does so for qNaN as well, i.e. iseqsig), so this patch adds documentation of the implementation-defined choice not to treat this case as a domain error. * manual/arith.texi (Math Error Reporting): Document that sNaN arguments are not considered domain errors.
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diff --git a/manual/arith.texi b/manual/arith.texi index 41ab577237..a20a4dec6c 100644 --- a/manual/arith.texi +++ b/manual/arith.texi @@ -939,6 +939,11 @@ guaranteed; it is intended that @theglibc{} should set it when the underflow is to an appropriately signed zero, but not necessarily for other underflows. +When a math function has an argument that is a signaling NaN, +@theglibc{} does not consider this a domain error, so @code{errno} is +unchanged, but the invalid exception is still raised (except for a few +functions that are specified to handle signaling NaNs differently). + Some of the math functions are defined mathematically to result in a complex value over parts of their domains. The most familiar example of this is taking the square root of a negative number. The complex math |