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RLIBM-ALL: A Novel Polynomial Approximation Method to Produce Correctly Rounded Results for Multiple Representations and Rounding Modes
Jay P. Lim, Santosh Nagarakatte
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Mainstream math libraries for floating point (FP) do not produce correctly rounded results for all inputs. In contrast, CR-LIBM and RLIBM provide correctly rounded implementations for a specific FP representation with one rounding mode. Using such libraries for a representation with a new rounding mode or with different precision will result in wrong results due to double rounding. This paper proposes a novel method to generate a single polynomial approximation that produces correctly rounded results for all inputs for multiple rounding modes and multiple precision configurations. To generate a correctly rounded library for n-bits, our key idea is to generate such a polynomial approximation for a representation with n+2-bits using the \emph{round-to-odd} mode. We prove that the resulting polynomial approximation will produce correctly rounded results for all five rounding modes in the standard and for multiple representations with k-bits such that |E| +1 < k ≤n, where |E| is the number of exponent bits in the representation. Building on our prior work in the RLIBM project, we also approximate the correctly rounded result when we generate the library with n+2-bits using the round-to-odd mode. We also generate polynomial approximations by structuring it as a linear programming problem but propose enhancements to polynomial generation to handle the round-to-odd mode. Our prototype is the first 32-bit float library that produces correctly rounded results with all rounding modes in the IEEE standard for all inputs with a single polynomial approximation. It also produces correctly rounded results for any FP configuration ranging from 10-bits to 32-bits while also being faster than mainstream libraries.
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