mpn_sqrtrem{1,2}

[Torbjörn Granlund]

I haven't followed this thread carefully, but now I have some questions:

Are these instructions affected by rounding mode?  Are there variants
where the instructions themselves specify the rounding mode?

The adjustment steps look a bit confusing, and perhaps sub-optimal.

Would it not be possible to set things up (with or without rounding
control) such that the result is always at most one off and always in
one direction?  Then a conditional increment (decrement) would suffice.

Why do you use IEEE single-precision sqrtss when limbs are 32 bits? It
appears that sqrtsd would give a correct result always after conversion
back to mp_limb_t, without any "adjustments".


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Torbjörn
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