The current gamma, gamma_r, gammaf and gammaf_r functions return
|gamma(x)| instead of ln(|gamma(x)|) due to a change made back in 2002
to the __ieee754_gamma_r implementation. This patch fixes that, making
all of these functions map too their lgamma equivalents.
To fix the underlying bug, the __ieee754_gamma functions have been
changed to return gamma(x), removing the _r variants as those are no
longer necessary. Their names have been changed to __ieee754_tgamma to
avoid potential confusion from users.
Now that the __ieee754_tgamma functions return the correctly signed
value, the tgamma functions have been modified to use them.
libm.a now exposes the following gamma functions:
ln(|gamma(x)|):
__ieee754_lgamma_r
__ieee754_lgammaf_r
lgamma
lgamma_r
gamma
gamma_r
lgammaf
lgammaf_r
gammaf
gammaf_r
lgammal (on machines where long double is double)
gamma(x):
__ieee754_tgamma
__ieee754_tgammaf
tgamma
tgammaf
tgammal (on machines where long double is double)
Additional aliases for any of the above functions can be added if
necessary; in particular, I'm not sure if we need to include
__ieee754_gamma*_r functions (which would return ln(|(gamma(x)|).
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
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This patch removes the definitions of HUGE_VAL from some of the float math
functions. HUGE_VAL is defined in newlib/libc/include/math.h, so it is not
necessary to have a further definition in the math functions.
Keith Packard via Newlib
Jozef Lawrynowicz
Christopher Faylor