diff --git a/lib/c/math.zig b/lib/c/math.zig
index 2c02597bb2..cce37f9000 100644
--- a/lib/c/math.zig
+++ b/lib/c/math.zig
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ comptime {
         symbol(&pow, "pow");
         symbol(&pow10, "pow10");
         symbol(&pow10f, "pow10f");
+        symbol(&acosf, "acosf");
     }
 
     if (builtin.target.isMuslLibC()) {
@@ -84,6 +85,10 @@ fn atanl(x: c_longdouble) callconv(.c) c_longdouble {
     };
 }
 
+fn acosf(x: f32) callconv(.c) f32 {
+    return std.math.acos(x);
+}
+
 fn isnan(x: f64) callconv(.c) c_int {
     return if (math.isNan(x)) 1 else 0;
 }
diff --git a/lib/libc/musl/src/math/acosf.c b/lib/libc/musl/src/math/acosf.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ee1a71d0c..0000000000
--- a/lib/libc/musl/src/math/acosf.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-/* origin: FreeBSD /usr/src/lib/msun/src/e_acosf.c */
-/*
- * Conversion to float by Ian Lance Taylor, Cygnus Support, ian@cygnus.com.
- */
-/*
- * ====================================================
- * Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
- *
- * Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
- * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
- * software is freely granted, provided that this notice
- * is preserved.
- * ====================================================
- */
-
-#include "libm.h"
-
-static const float
-pio2_hi = 1.5707962513e+00, /* 0x3fc90fda */
-pio2_lo = 7.5497894159e-08, /* 0x33a22168 */
-pS0 =  1.6666586697e-01,
-pS1 = -4.2743422091e-02,
-pS2 = -8.6563630030e-03,
-qS1 = -7.0662963390e-01;
-
-static float R(float z)
-{
-	float_t p, q;
-	p = z*(pS0+z*(pS1+z*pS2));
-	q = 1.0f+z*qS1;
-	return p/q;
-}
-
-float acosf(float x)
-{
-	float z,w,s,c,df;
-	uint32_t hx,ix;
-
-	GET_FLOAT_WORD(hx, x);
-	ix = hx & 0x7fffffff;
-	/* |x| >= 1 or nan */
-	if (ix >= 0x3f800000) {
-		if (ix == 0x3f800000) {
-			if (hx >> 31)
-				return 2*pio2_hi + 0x1p-120f;
-			return 0;
-		}
-		return 0/(x-x);
-	}
-	/* |x| < 0.5 */
-	if (ix < 0x3f000000) {
-		if (ix <= 0x32800000) /* |x| < 2**-26 */
-			return pio2_hi + 0x1p-120f;
-		return pio2_hi - (x - (pio2_lo-x*R(x*x)));
-	}
-	/* x < -0.5 */
-	if (hx >> 31) {
-		z = (1+x)*0.5f;
-		s = sqrtf(z);
-		w = R(z)*s-pio2_lo;
-		return 2*(pio2_hi - (s+w));
-	}
-	/* x > 0.5 */
-	z = (1-x)*0.5f;
-	s = sqrtf(z);
-	GET_FLOAT_WORD(hx,s);
-	SET_FLOAT_WORD(df,hx&0xfffff000);
-	c = (z-df*df)/(s+df);
-	w = R(z)*s+c;
-	return 2*(df+w);
-}
diff --git a/lib/libc/musl/src/math/i386/acosf.s b/lib/libc/musl/src/math/i386/acosf.s
deleted file mode 100644
index d2cdfdbfef..0000000000
--- a/lib/libc/musl/src/math/i386/acosf.s
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-.global acosf
-.type acosf,@function
-acosf:
-	flds 4(%esp)
-	fld %st(0)
-	fld1
-	fsub %st(0),%st(1)
-	fadd %st(2)
-	fmulp
-	fsqrt
-	fabs         # fix sign of zero (matters in downward rounding mode)
-	fxch %st(1)
-	fpatan
-	fstps 4(%esp)
-	flds 4(%esp)
-	ret
diff --git a/lib/std/math/acos.zig b/lib/std/math/acos.zig
index dae3f70c82..b163551d0a 100644
--- a/lib/std/math/acos.zig
+++ b/lib/std/math/acos.zig
@@ -81,9 +81,13 @@ fn rationalApproxBinary32(z: f32) f32 {
     const pS2: f32 = -8.6563630030e-03;
     const qS1: f32 = -7.0662963390e-01;
 
-    const p = z * (pS0 + z * (pS1 + z * pS2));
-    const q = 1.0 + z * qS1;
-    return p / q;
+    // f64 is used instead of f32 to avoid
+    // a vectorization on x86_64. The vectorization
+    // causes extra floating point execeptions
+    // that are prohibited by libc-test.
+    const p: f64 = @as(f64, @floatCast(z)) * (pS0 + z * (pS1 + z * pS2));
+    const q: f64 = 1.0 + z * qS1;
+    return @floatCast(p / q);
 }
 
 fn acosBinary32(x: f32) f32 {
diff --git a/src/libs/musl.zig b/src/libs/musl.zig
index 3f2739ec71..d8f5fe2812 100644
--- a/src/libs/musl.zig
+++ b/src/libs/musl.zig
@@ -798,7 +798,6 @@ const src_files = [_][]const u8{
     "musl/src/math/aarch64/nearbyint.c",
     "musl/src/math/aarch64/nearbyintf.c",
     "musl/src/math/aarch64/rintf.c",
-    "musl/src/math/acosf.c",
     "musl/src/math/acosh.c",
     "musl/src/math/acoshf.c",
     "musl/src/math/acoshl.c",
@@ -852,7 +851,6 @@ const src_files = [_][]const u8{
     "musl/src/math/frexp.c",
     "musl/src/math/frexpf.c",
     "musl/src/math/frexpl.c",
-    "musl/src/math/i386/acosf.s",
     "musl/src/math/i386/acosl.s",
     "musl/src/math/i386/asinf.s",
     "musl/src/math/i386/asinl.s",
diff --git a/src/libs/wasi_libc.zig b/src/libs/wasi_libc.zig
index 869c4d52da..0bdcb724c5 100644
--- a/src/libs/wasi_libc.zig
+++ b/src/libs/wasi_libc.zig
@@ -664,7 +664,6 @@ const libc_top_half_src_files = [_][]const u8{
     "musl/src/locale/strtod_l.c",
     "musl/src/locale/wcscoll.c",
     "musl/src/locale/wcsxfrm.c",
-    "musl/src/math/acosf.c",
     "musl/src/math/acosh.c",
     "musl/src/math/acoshf.c",
     "musl/src/math/acoshl.c",
diff --git a/test/libc.zig b/test/libc.zig
index 57581ca32e..f2c34af560 100644
--- a/test/libc.zig
+++ b/test/libc.zig
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ pub fn addCases(cases: *tests.LibcContext) void {
     cases.addLibcTestCase("regression/wcsstr-false-negative.c", true, .{});
 
     cases.addLibcTestCase("math/acos.c", true, .{});
-    // cases.addLibcTestCase("math/acosf.c", true, .{});
+    cases.addLibcTestCase("math/acosf.c", true, .{});
     // cases.addLibcTestCase("math/acosh.c", true, .{});
     cases.addLibcTestCase("math/acoshf.c", true, .{});
     // cases.addLibcTestCase("math/acoshl.c", true, .{});