On Mon, Apr 19 2021, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > On Apr 17 10:02, airplanemath via Cygwin wrote: >> Given that hypot(DBL_MAX, 0.0) = DBL_MAX and hypotf(FLT_MAX, 0.0f) = >> FLT_MAX, I suspect this is a problem in hypotl. Am I missing >> something? > > No. This is a bug in newlib's hypotl. Newlib mainly targest embedded > systems and as such wasn't very much interested in long double > arithmetic for a long time. > > Having said that, there's an easier way out for Cygwin: We just use > the hypotl function from Mingw-w64 for Cygwin as well. > > I pushed this patch and uploaded new developer snapshots to > https://cygwin/snapshots/ > > Please give it a try.
Thank you. This fixes that problem and a related one for me. > > > Thanks, Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
