Xin, Peixing Peixing.Xin at windriver.com
Thu Apr 11 05:45:00 EDT 2019

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Hi, Math experts:

Looking at the codes below, for many math operations, CPython is checking errno to determine the error status even though the math function returns normal value back. Is it a safe solution? From the description here http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/errno.3.html and https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=87152351, it looks apis probably set the errno when normal result is returned. Or being a side effect by calling other APIs in the implementation. In this situation, CPython's math operation might raise exceptions however in fact the result is correct.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/mathmodule.c#L956
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/mathmodule.c#L864

Thanks,
Peixing

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