[Pkg-julia-devel] Julia parallel test

[Peter Colberg]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:59:50AM -0500, Peter Colberg wrote:
> powl etc are long double variants of math functions, which are useful
> only on old x86 processors with x87 FP instructions and without SSE.
> Julia will certainly never be using those functions, so it is unclear
> why upstream would want to implement these other than for providing a
> drop-in replacement for system libm.

More good news!

The functions powl, logl, and expl have in fact been implemented
upstream, but not yet released as stable version.

JuliaLang/openlibm# grep -r '^\(expl\|logl\|powl\)' .

./ld128/e_logl.c:logl(long double x)
./ld128/e_expl.c:expl(long double x)
./ld128/e_powl.c:powl(long double x, long double y)
./ld80/e_logl.c:logl(long double x)
./ld80/e_expl.c:expl(long double x)
./ld80/e_powl.c:powl(long double x, long double y)

Peter