| | Copyright 1999, 2001-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| | Contributed by the AriC and Caramba projects, INRIA. |
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| | This file is part of the GNU MPFR Library. |
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| | The GNU MPFR Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| | it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by |
| | the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your |
| | option) any later version. |
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| | The GNU MPFR Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
| | WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY |
| | or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public |
| | License for more details. |
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| | You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License |
| | along with the GNU MPFR Library; see the file COPYING.LESSER. If not, see |
| | https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., |
| | 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. |
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| | Known bugs: |
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| | * The overflow/underflow exceptions may be badly handled in some functions; |
| | specially when the intermediary internal results have exponent which |
| | exceeds the hardware limit (2^30 for a 32 bits CPU, and 2^62 for a 64 bits |
| | CPU) or the exact result is close to an overflow/underflow threshold. |
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| | * Under Linux/x86 with the traditional FPU, some functions do not work |
| | if the FPU rounding precision has been changed to single (this is a |
| | bad practice and should be useless, but one never knows what other |
| | software will do). |
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| | * Some functions do not use MPFR_SAVE_EXPO_* macros, thus do not behave |
| | correctly in a reduced exponent range. |
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| | * Function hypot gives incorrect result when on the one hand the difference |
| | between parameters' exponents is near 2*MPFR_EMAX_MAX and on the other hand |
| | the output precision or the precision of the parameter with greatest |
| | absolute value is greater than 2*MPFR_EMAX_MAX-4. |
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| | Potential bugs: |
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| | * Possible incorrect results due to internal underflow, which can lead to |
| | a huge loss of accuracy while the error analysis doesn't take that into |
| | account. If the underflow occurs at the last function call (just before |
| | the MPFR_CAN_ROUND), the result should be correct (or MPFR gets into an |
| | infinite loop). TODO: check the code and the error analysis. |
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| | * Possible bugs with huge precisions (> 2^30) and a 32-bit ABI, in particular |
| | undetected integer overflows. TODO: use the MPFR_ADD_PREC macro. |
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| | * Possible bugs if the chosen exponent range does not allow to represent |
| | the range [1/16, 16]. |
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| | * Possible infinite loop in some functions for particular cases: when |
| | the exact result is an exactly representable number or the middle of |
| | consecutive two such numbers. However, for non-algebraic functions, it is |
| | believed that no such case exists, except the well-known cases like cos(0)=1, |
| | exp(0)=1, and so on, and the x^y function when y is an integer or y=1/2^k. |
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| | * The mpfr_set_ld function may be quite slow if the long double type has an |
| | exponent of more than 15 bits. |
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| | * mpfr_set_d may give wrong results on some non-IEEE architectures. |
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| | * Error analysis for some functions may be incorrect (out-of-date due |
| | to modifications in the code?). |
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| | * Possible use of non-portable feature (pre-C99) of the integer division |
| | with negative result. |
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