diff --git a/benchtests/Makefile b/benchtests/Makefile
index 0820d2060d..c1698c6c3f 100644
--- a/benchtests/Makefile
+++ b/benchtests/Makefile
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 subdir := benchtests
 bench := acos acosh asin asinh atan atanh cos cosh exp log modf pow rint sin \
-	 sincos sinh tan tanh
+	 sincos sinh sqrt tan tanh
 
 # String function benchmarks.
 string-bench := bcopy bzero memccpy memchr memcmp memcpy memmem memmove \
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ LDLIBS-bench-pow = -lm
 LDLIBS-bench-rint = -lm
 LDLIBS-bench-sin = -lm
 LDLIBS-bench-sinh = -lm
+LDLIBS-bench-sqrt = -lm
 LDLIBS-bench-tan = -lm
 LDLIBS-bench-tanh = -lm
 LDLIBS-bench-sincos = -lm
diff --git a/benchtests/sqrt-inputs b/benchtests/sqrt-inputs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..370bc05cc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchtests/sqrt-inputs
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+## args: double
+## ret: double
+## includes: math.h
+0.25
+0.75
+2.0
+4.0
+2209.0
+6642.25
+15190.5625