In the test suite, there are quite a few tests for log of negative numbers. I was in the process of converting the generated tests to return +quiet-<float>-nan-mask+ for :uo tests. However, this caused a huge increase in the number of failures.

One of them is SINGLE-LOG-VALUE.41:

Form: (PROGN "logs n uo v 80800000 0" (IEEEFP-TESTS::SET-UP-FPCW-STATE :NEAREST) (LET ((IEEEFP-TESTS::RESULT (LOG (IEEE754:MAKE-SINGLE-FLOAT IEEEFP-TESTS::+LEAST-NEGATIVE-NORMALIZED-SINGLE-FLOAT+)))) (IF (COMPLEXP IEEEFP-TESTS::RESULT) T (LET ((IEEEFP-TESTS::RESULT-BITS (IEEE754:SINGLE-FLOAT-BITS IEEEFP-TESTS::RESULT))) (= (LOGAND IEEEFP-TESTS::RESULT-BITS IEEEFP-TESTS::+QUIET-SINGLE-FLOAT-NAN-MASK+) IEEEFP-TESTS::+QUIET-SINGLE-FLOAT-NAN-MASK+))))) Expected value: T

The tests expects (log <negative) to be a NaN, but we were passing the test because we returned T because we got a complex result.

Is this the desired answer? In terms of the test, I think we should fail the test. When I modify the test to return the logand result and an expected answer of quiet-single-float-nan-mask, we do fail, of course.

Another interesting test is single-log-value.54. CMUCL says (log <negative quiet NaN>) is #c(<quiet nan> pi). That's seems debatable.

Anyway, I wanted your opinion on whether Lisp should fail single-log-value.41.

Ray