it's not clear to me at the moment whether the code that was removed
(and which is now being re-added) is needed, but it's far from being a
no-op, and i don't want to risk breaking regex in this release.
based on patch by Pierre Carrier <pierre@gcarrier.fr> that just added
the flag constant, but with minimal additional code so that it
actually works as documented. this is a nonstandard option but some
major software (reportedly, Firefox) uses it and it was easy to add
anyway.
original FreeSec code accessed keybuf as uint32* and uint8* as well
(incorrectly), this got fixed with an union, but then it seems the
uint32* access is no longer needed so the code can be simplified
the internal sha2 hash sum functions had incorrect array size
in the prototype for the message digest argument, fixed by
using pointer so it is not misleading
this is wasteful and useless from a standpoint of sane programs, but
it is required by the standard, and the current requirements were
upheld with the closure of Austin Group issue #639:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=639
common part of erf and erfc was put in a separate function which
saved some space and the new code is using unsigned arithmetics
erfcf had a bug: for some inputs in [7.95,8] the result had
more than 60ulp error: in expf(-z*z - 0.5625f) the argument
must be exact but not enough lowbits of z were zeroed,
-SET_FLOAT_WORD(z, ix&0xfffff000);
+SET_FLOAT_WORD(z, ix&0xffffe000);
fixed the issue
for _Noreturn functions, gcc generates code that trashes the
stack frame, and so it makes it impossible to inspect the causes
of an assert error in gdb.
abort() is not affected (i have not yet investigated why).
both jn and yn functions had integer overflow issues for large
and small n
to handle these issues nm1 (== |n|-1) is used instead of n and -n
in the code and some loops are changed to make sure the iteration
counter does not overflow
(another solution could be to use larger integer type or even double
but that has more size and runtime cost, on x87 loading int64_t or
even uint32_t into an fpu register is more than two times slower than
loading int32_t, and using double for n slows down iteration logic)
yn(-1,0) now returns inf
posix2008 specifies that on overflow and at +-0 all y0,y1,yn functions
return -inf, this is not consistent with math when n<0 odd integer in yn
(eg. when x->0, yn(-1,x)->inf, but historically yn(-1,0) seems to be
special cased and returned -inf)
some threshold values in jnf and ynf were fixed that seems to be
incorrectly copy-pasted from the double version
a common code path in j1 and y1 was factored out so the resulting
object code is a bit smaller
unsigned int arithmetics is used for bit manipulation
j1(-inf) now returns 0 instead of -0
an incorrect threshold in the common code of j1f and y1f got fixed
(this caused spurious overflow and underflow exceptions)
the else branch in pone and pzero functions are fixed
(so code analyzers dont warn about uninitialized values)
a common code path in j0 and y0 was factored out so the resulting
object code is smaller
unsigned int arithmetics is used for bit manipulation
the logic of j0 got a bit simplified (x < 1 case was handled
separately with a bit higher precision than now, but there are large
errors in other domains anyway so that branch has been removed)
some threshold values were adjusted in j0f and y0f
libc is the macro, __libc is the internal symbol, but under some
configurations on old/broken compilers, the symbol might not actually
exist and the libc macro might instead use __libc_loc() to obtain
access to the object.
the previous logic was assuming the kernel would give EINVAL when
passed an invalid address, but instead with MAP_FIXED it was giving
EPERM, as it considered this an attempt to map over kernel memory.
instead of trying to get the kernel to do the rigth thing, the new
code just handles the error in userspace.
I have also cleaned up the code to use a single mask to check for
invalid low bits and unsupported high bits, so it's simpler and more
clearly correct. the old code was actually wrong for sizeof(long)
smaller than sizeof(off_t) but not equal to 4; now it should be
correct for all possibilities.
for 64-bit systems, the low-bits test is new and extraneous (the
kernel should catch the error anyway when the mmap2 syscall is not
used), but it's cheap anyway. if this is an issue, the OFF_MASK
definition could be tweaked to omit the low bits when SYS_mmap2 is not
defined.
previously 0x1p-1000 and 0x1p1000 was used for raising inexact
exception like x+tiny (when x is big) or x+huge (when x is small)
the rational is that these float consts are large enough
(0x1p-120 + 1 raises inexact even on ld128 which has 113 mant bits)
and float consts maybe smaller or easier to load on some platforms
(on i386 this reduced the object file size by 4bytes in some cases)
this is not a full rewrite just fixes to the special case logic:
+-0 and non-integer x<INT_MIN inputs incorrectly raised invalid
exception and for +-0 the return value was wrong
so integer test and odd/even test for negative inputs are changed
and a useless overflow test was removed
comments are kept in the double version of the function
compared to fdlibm/freebsd we partition the domain into one
more part and select different threshold points:
now the [log(5/3)/2,log(3)/2] and [log(3)/2,inf] domains
should have <1.5ulp error
(so only the last bit may be wrong, assuming good exp, expm1)
(note that log(3)/2 and log(5/3)/2 are the points where tanh
changes resolution: tanh(log(3)/2)=0.5, tanh(log(5/3)/2)=0.25)
for some x < log(5/3)/2 (~=0.2554) the error can be >1.5ulp
but it should be <2ulp
(the freebsd code had some >2ulp errors in [0.255,1])
even with the extra logic the new code produces smaller
object files
changed the algorithm: large input is not special cased
(when exp(-x) is small compared to exp(x))
and the threshold values are reevaluated
(fdlibm code had a log(2)/2 cutoff for which i could not find
justification, log(2) seems to be a better threshold and this
was verified empirically)
the new code is simpler, makes smaller binaries and should be
faster for common cases
the old comments were removed as they are no longer true for the
new algorithm and the fdlibm copyright was dropped as well
because there is no common code or idea with the original anymore
except for trivial ones.
with naive exp2l(x*log2e) the last 12bits of the result was incorrect
for x with large absolute value
with hi + lo = x*log2e is caluclated to 128 bits precision and then
expl(x) = exp2l(hi) + exp2l(hi) * f2xm1(lo)
this gives <1.5ulp measured error everywhere in nearest rounding mode
uses the lanczos approximation method with the usual tweaks.
same parameters were selected as in boost and python.
(avoides some extra work and special casing found in boost
so the precision is not that good: measured error is <5ulp for
positive x and <10ulp for negative)
an alternative lgamma_r implementation is also given in the same
file which is simpler and smaller than the current one, but less
precise so it's ifdefed out for now.
modifications:
* avoid unsigned->signed conversions
* removed various volatile hacks
* use FORCE_EVAL when evaluating only for side-effects
* factor out R() rational approximation instead of manual inline
* __invtrigl.h now only provides __invtrigl_R, __pio2_hi and __pio2_lo
* use 2*pio2_hi, 2*pio2_lo instead of pi_hi, pi_lo
otherwise the logic is not changed, long double versions will
need a revisit when a genaral long double cleanup happens
modifications:
* avoid unsigned->signed integer conversion
* do not handle special cases when they work correctly anyway
* more strict threshold values (0x1p26 instead of 0x1p28 etc)
* smaller code, cleaner branching logic
* same precision as the old code:
acosh(x) has up to 2ulp error in [1,1.125]
asinh(x) has up to 1.6ulp error in [0.125,0.5], [-0.5,-0.125]
atanh(x) has up to 1.7ulp error in [0.125,0.5], [-0.5,-0.125]
this change fixes an obscure issue with some nonstandard kernels,
where the initial brk syscall returns a pointer just past the end of
bss rather than the beginning of a new page. in that case, the dynamic
linker has already reclaimed the space between the end of bss and the
page end for use by malloc, and memory corruption (allocating the same
memory twice) will occur when malloc again claims it on the first call
to brk.
if there's evidence of any use for it, we can add it back later. as
far as I can tell, glibc has it only for internal use (and musl uses a
direct syscall in that case rather than a function call), not for
exposing it to applications.
in case of mmap-obtained chunks, end points past the end of the
mapping and reading it may fault. since the value is not needed until
after the conditional, move the access to prevent invalid reads.
Rich Felker
Szabolcs Nagy
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