Formal Verification of Floating Point Trigonometric Functions

  • Authors:
  • John Harrison

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • FMCAD '00 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We have formal verified a number of algorithms for evaluating transcendental functions in double-extended precision floating point arithmetic in the Intel庐 IA-64 architecture. These algorithms are used in the Itanium驴 processor to provide compatibility with IA-32 (x86) hard-ware transcendentals, and similar ones are used in mathematical software libraries. In this paper we describe in some depth the formal verification of the sin and cos functions, including the initial range reduction step. This illustrates the different facets of verification in this field, covering both pure mathematics and the detailed analysis of floating point rounding.