fix exp asm

exponents (base 2) near 16383 were broken due to (1) wrong cutoff, and
(2) inability to fit the necessary range of scalings into a long
double value.

as a solution, we fall back to using frndint/fscale for insanely large
exponents, and also have to special-case infinities here to avoid
inf-inf generating nan.

thankfully the costly code never runs in normal usage cases.

diff --git a/src/math/i386/exp.s b/src/math/i386/exp.s
index 76ab4d6465e298c408f64876ba8cb293a6e2d986..ca0de1d4f2ac5b7a5db23de24777fb75bd0c7002 100644 (file)
--- a/src/math/i386/exp.s
+++ b/src/math/i386/exp.s
@@ -68,21 +68,19 @@ exp:
 .type exp2,@function
 exp2:
        fldl 4(%esp)
-1:     mov $0x47000000,%eax
-       push %eax
+1:     pushl $0x467ff000
        flds (%esp)
-       shl $7,%eax
-       push %eax
-       add %eax,%eax
+       xorl %eax,%eax
+       pushl $0x80000000
        push %eax
        fld %st(1)
        fabs
        fucom %st(1)
        fnstsw
-       sahf
-       ja 2f
        fstp %st(0)
        fstp %st(0)
+       sahf
+       ja 2f
        fld %st(0)
        fistpl 8(%esp)
        fildl 8(%esp)
@@ -99,22 +97,23 @@ exp2:
        add $12,%esp
        ret
 
-2:     fstp %st(0)
-       fstp %st(0)
-       fsts 8(%esp)
-       mov 8(%esp),%eax
-       lea (%eax,%eax),%ecx
-       cmp $0xff000000,%ecx
-       ja 2f
+2:     fld %st(0)
+       fstpt (%esp)
+       mov 9(%esp),%ah
+       and $0x7f,%ah
+       cmp $0x7f,%ah
+       jne 1f
+       decb 9(%esp)
        fstp %st(0)
-       xor %ecx,%ecx
-       inc %ecx
-       add %eax,%eax
-       jc 1f
-       mov $0x7ffe,%ecx
-1:     mov %ecx,8(%esp)
        fldt (%esp)
-       fld %st(0)
-       fmulp
-2:     add $12,%esp
+1:     fld %st(0)
+       frndint
+       fxch %st(1)
+       fsub %st(1)
+       f2xm1
+       fld1
+       faddp
+       fscale
+       fstp %st(1)
+       add $12,%esp
        ret