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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 1d93077dcd..51867920fc 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2016-12-16 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> + + * manual/arith.texi (Math Error Reporting): Document that sNaN + arguments are not considered domain errors. + 2016-12-16 Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> 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 |