------- Comment #8 from eli dot osherovich at gmail dot com  2010-03-19 13:27 
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(In reply to comment #6)
> Also: 1e22 is not exactly representable as a floating point number. By
> consequence, 1e22 is different numbers when stored as a double or a
> long double, and we should expect different results when applying the
> sine to it.
> 
> W.
> 
This is *not* a problem of binary representation. I tried to use exactly the
same argument (one time double, another time *promoted* to long double). The
function is not implemented correctly, or, at least for some numbers in legal
range.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43405

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