Phobos unit testing uncovers a CPU bug

Don nospam at nospam.com
Sat Nov 27 22:30:54 PST 2010


Kagamin wrote:
> Don Wrote:
> 
>> The great tragedy was that an early AMD processor gave much accurate sin 
>> and cos than the 387. But, people complained that it was different from 
>> Intel! So, their next processor duplicated Intel's hopelessly wrong trig 
>> functions.
> 
> The same question goes to you. Why do you call this bug?

The Intel CPU gives the correct answer, but AMD's is wrong. They should 
both give the correct result.


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