[fpc-devel] Broken frac functionin FPC3.1.1 / Windows x86_64

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Thu May 3 07:56:39 CEST 2018


J. Gareth Moreton <gareth at moreton-family.com> schrieb am Do., 3. Mai 2018,
04:55:

> Tests complete! It turns out that I was using SetExceptionMask wrong and
> subtracting rather than adding exInvalidOp.
>
> When exceptions are disabled, this new Frac function returns NaN when you
> pass in plus or minus infinity.  This is consistent with the specification
> as listed in Chapter 11, Section 11.5.2.1 of the IntelĀ® 64 and IA-32
> Architectures Software Developer's Manual which dicates that if the cause
> is "Addition of opposite signed infinities or subtraction of like-signed
> infinities" (the last line in the procedure is SUBSD that effectively
> performs "x - Int(x)"), the result is to "Return the QNaN floating-point
> Indefinite".
>

Great! If you haven't done so, would you please make sure that your patch
is attached to the bug report so that I can find it? :)

Regards,
Sven

>
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