From Steve Kargl:
Paul Zimmermann has identified a bug in Openlibm's powf(),
which is identical to FreeBSD's libm. Both derived from
fdlibm. https://github.com/JuliaMath/openlibm/issues/212.
Consider
% cat h.c
int
main(void)
{
float x, y, z;
x = 0x1.ffffecp-1F;
y = -0x1.000002p+27F;
z = 0x1.557a86p115F;
printf("%e %e %e <-- should be %e\n", x, y, powf(x,y), z);
return 0;
}
% cc -o h -fno-builtin h.c -lm && ./h
9.999994e-01 -1.342177e+08 inf <-- should be 5.540807e+34