[10914] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6F: fsqrt on decmips is broken (C)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ringrose@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 8 10:57:23 1993
From: ringrose@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 93 10:57:15 EDT
System name: major
Type and version: KN02ca 7.6F (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: PMAG-DV
What were you trying to do?
I was trying to take the square root of a floating point number
What's wrong:
man sqrt on this machine describes a function fsqrt which
acts like sqrt, but on floats instead of doubles. It is
completely inaccurate.
man fsqrt does not show any manpage.
What should have happened:
The function fsqrt should
1) Not exist
or 2) Work
In the case of 2, man fsqrt should
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man sqrt (on major).
- Robert Ringrose
ringrose@ai.mit.edu
ringrose@athena.mit.edu
