[ale] intel math error, or "Hurry up with glibc 2.19"

[Boris Borisov]

That I guess is addressed only for Intel. I have several SOC with math
software EMU. I wonder what the result are in these aka how good is the
math emulator in linix kernel.

On Saturday, October 11, 2014, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Next glibc (v.2.19) has some better math in it that won't rely on Intel's
> bad math.
>
>
> http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/
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