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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 04:36:14 +0100
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: [PATCH] fix underflow exception in fma and fmal

another corner case in the freebsd fma code where signaling underflow
may be missed for an inexact subnormal result.
(fmaf and x86 fma are not affected)
---
 src/math/fma.c  | 7 +++++++
 src/math/fmal.c | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/math/fma.c b/src/math/fma.c
index 741ccd75..c69918d1 100644
--- a/src/math/fma.c
+++ b/src/math/fma.c
@@ -279,6 +279,13 @@ static inline double add_and_denormalize(double a, double b, int scale)
 			uhi.i += 1 - (((uhi.i ^ ulo.i) >> 62) & 2);
 			sum.hi = uhi.f;
 		}
+#ifdef FE_UNDERFLOW
+		/*
+		 * Raise underflow manually because scalbn won't do it if all
+		 * lost bits are 0: fma(-0x1p-1000, 0x1.000001p-74, 0x1p-1022)
+		 */
+		feraiseexcept(FE_UNDERFLOW);
+#endif
 	}
 	return scalbn(sum.hi, scale);
 }
diff --git a/src/math/fmal.c b/src/math/fmal.c
index 4506aac6..feb19ec1 100644
--- a/src/math/fmal.c
+++ b/src/math/fmal.c
@@ -121,6 +121,14 @@ static inline long double add_and_denormalize(long double a, long double b, int
 		bits_lost = -u.i.se - scale + 1;
 		if ((bits_lost != 1) ^ LASTBIT(u))
 			sum.hi = nextafterl(sum.hi, INFINITY * sum.lo);
+#ifdef FE_UNDERFLOW
+		/*
+		 * Raise underflow manually because scalbnl won't do it if all
+		 * lost bits are 0, e.g.:
+		 * fmal(-0x1p-10000L, 0x1.0000000000001p-6445L, 0x1p-16382L)
+		 */
+		feraiseexcept(FE_UNDERFLOW);
+#endif
 	}
 	return scalbnl(sum.hi, scale);
 }
-- 
2.11.0

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