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authorFabian Schriever <fabian.schriever@gtd-gmbh.de>2020-03-03 16:49:06 +0300
committerCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2020-03-03 18:45:22 +0300
commitd4bcecb3e91f73091195adbfdcb0d4287cdf1753 (patch)
tree4beb5627a778633f86804873beeb821307021495
parentecf27dd2e0ed1dff4dc919a7c805e951913d953f (diff)
Fix error in float trig. function range reduction
The single-precision trigonometric functions show rather high errors in specific ranges starting at about 30000 radians. For example the sinf procedure produces an error of 7626.55 ULP with the input 5.195880078125e+04 (0x474AF6CD) (compared with MPFR in 128bit precision). For the test we used 100k values evenly spaced in the range of [30k, 70k]. The issues are periodic at higher ranges. This error was introduced when the double precision range reduction was first converted to float. The shift by 8 bits always returns 0 as iq is never higher than 255. The fix reduces the error of the example above to 0.45 ULP, highest error within the test set fell to 1.31 ULP, which is not perfect, but still a significant improvement. Testing other previously erroneous ranges no longer show particularly large accuracy errors.
-rw-r--r--newlib/libm/math/kf_rem_pio2.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/newlib/libm/math/kf_rem_pio2.c b/newlib/libm/math/kf_rem_pio2.c
index 1573ca9f6..3ca7cc20d 100644
--- a/newlib/libm/math/kf_rem_pio2.c
+++ b/newlib/libm/math/kf_rem_pio2.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ recompute:
iq[jz-1] -= i<<(8-q0);
ih = iq[jz-1]>>(7-q0);
}
- else if(q0==0) ih = iq[jz-1]>>8;
+ else if(q0==0) ih = iq[jz-1]>>7;
else if(z>=(float)0.5) ih=2;
if(ih>0) { /* q > 0.5 */