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Subject: Re: standards/143358: nearbyint raises spurious inexact exception
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Synopsis: nearbyint raises spurious inexact exception

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Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Jan 30 12:47:54 UTC 2010
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This is (verified) not amd64 specific, it seems to be a regression in
8.0.  I think -standards may be the best place for this PR, although I'll
also ping das@ about it.

Note that a comment in the function itself in lib/msun/src/s_nearbyint.c 
does also suggest that this PR is valid, "We save and restore the
floating-point environment to avoid raising an inexact exception."  I've
also verified Solaris 10, Linux and FreeBSD 7.2 show the expected behaviour.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=143358