The USE_NATIVE_FULL_ITERATIONS codepath in div64 is broken

[koute]

It looks like this codepath is completely broken. If enabled like this:

diff --git a/src/float/div.rs b/src/float/div.rs
index 8c4cf55..d15c2b9 100644
--- a/src/float/div.rs
+++ b/src/float/div.rs
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ where
 {
     const NUMBER_OF_HALF_ITERATIONS: usize = 3;
     const NUMBER_OF_FULL_ITERATIONS: usize = 1;
-    const USE_NATIVE_FULL_ITERATIONS: bool = false;
+    const USE_NATIVE_FULL_ITERATIONS: bool = true;
 
     let one = F::Int::ONE;
     let zero = F::Int::ZERO;
@@ -922,3 +922,8 @@ intrinsics! {
         a / b
     }
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn test_div64() {
+    div64(10.0_f64, 5.0_f64);
+}

it fails with an overflow:

thread 'float::div::test_div64' panicked at 'attempt to multiply with overflow', src/float/div.rs:767:17

Looking at this code and looking at the div32 implementation I'm guessing this is how it should be fixed?

diff --git a/src/float/div.rs b/src/float/div.rs
index 8c4cf55..4ea7500 100644
--- a/src/float/div.rs
+++ b/src/float/div.rs
@@ -764,8 +764,8 @@ where
     let mut x_uq0 = if USE_NATIVE_FULL_ITERATIONS {
         for _ in 0..NUMBER_OF_FULL_ITERATIONS {
             let corr_uq1: u64 = 0.wrapping_sub(
-                (CastInto::<u64>::cast(x_uq0) * (CastInto::<u64>::cast(b_uq1))) >> F::BITS,
-            );
+                (CastInto::<u64>::cast(x_uq0) as u128 * (CastInto::<u64>::cast(b_uq1) as u128)) >> F::BITS,
+            ) as u64;
             x_uq0 = ((((CastInto::<u64>::cast(x_uq0) as u128) * (corr_uq1 as u128))
                 >> (F::BITS - 1)) as u64)
                 .cast();

[tgross35]

Yeah, the float division implementation is pretty fragile. The proposed fix would make f32 also use u128 math, which is better to avoid when not necessary.

Do you have a usecase where you want to tweak this? I am refactoring this as part of #622, but don'tr really plan to expose this configuration (instead it will use full iterations only if 2xBITS is <= pointer width, so it will start avoiding 64-bit math on <=32-bit platforms).

[koute]

Do you have a usecase where you want to tweak this?

I don't. I just found this bug because I essentially forked this code to run in a const fn as a soft float. (So my only usecase here would be "I wish all of these functions were const fn".)

[tgross35]

Oh, that is an interesting idea. In theory all of these should be usable for expansion at comptime, but the use of traits probably makes it pretty hard to use directly in actual const functions. The compiler uses rustc_apfloat for its comptime math, but it is also generic.

const float math has been proposed for stabilization, so maybe you won't need this at all soon rust-lang/rust#128596.

[tgross35]

The implementation changed recently, selecting the iteration count is done at

compiler-builtins/src/float/div.rs

Lines 507 to 529 in bb18ce5

	/// Calculate the number of iterations required for a float type's precision.
	///
	/// This returns `(h, f)` where `h` is the number of iterations to be done using integers at half
	/// the float's bit width, and `f` is the number of iterations done using integers of the float's
	/// full width. This is further explained in the module documentation.
	///
	/// # Requirements
	///
	/// The initial estimate should have at least 8 bits of precision. If this is not true, results
	/// will be inaccurate.
	const fn get_iterations<F: Float>() -> (usize, usize) {
	// Precision doubles with each iteration. Assume we start with 8 bits of precision.
	let total_iterations = F::BITS.ilog2() as usize - 2;
	if 2 * size_of::<F>() <= size_of::<*const ()>() {
	// If widening multiplication will be efficient (uses word-sized integers), there is no
	// reason to use half-sized iterations.
	(0, total_iterations)
	} else {
	// Otherwise, do as many iterations as possible at half width.
	(total_iterations - 1, 1)
	}
	}

. Based on my testing, this should work with both half and full iterations; but even if things aren't perfect, I don't think this issue has any specific action item for this issue.