Re: Proposal: Trigonometric functions in degrees

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:08:40PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So I pushed that, and tern/sungazer are still failing.  Noah, could you
>> trace through that and see exactly where it's going off the rails?

> The second sin() is a constant, so gcc computes it immediately but sends the
> first sin() to libm.  The libm sin() is slightly more accurate.

Ugh.  "compile-time simplification uses different version of sin()" was
one of the theories I had in mind, but I was hoping that wasn't it
because it'd be the hardest to work around reliably.  Still, I think it's
doable by caching the results of the should-be-constant subexpressions.
Will get on it.
        regards, tom lane