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Postings from September 2001
GRRR... always use reply yo all... ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Mattia Barbon <mbarbon@dsi.unive.it> To: Simon Cozens <simon@netthink.co.uk> Subject: Re: Tru64 Numeric bug exposed! Copies to: dan@sidhe.org, jhi@iki.fi Send reply to: mbarbon@dsi.unive.it Date sent: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 23:55:52 +0200 > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:31:50PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > > Unfortunately, I do not have the slightest idea why that is failing... > > That's failing because the test is way bogus. Mattia, consider yourself > slapped - 4.61168601842739e+18 is only 4611686018427389952.000000 If that is a bad thing, I must say that the test did not came from me, and it is 2 days that I complain for that... If that is a good thing, then thanks... :) ( sorry, but I only studied french at school, and the vucabulary is somewhere in my sister's room... ) > platforms like x86. :) Fixing up the test to be less rigorous is a bit Oh, not really: it is 4611686018427389952.000000 on broken Linux/x86, but it is (*put something terminating with 000.00000--don't have the log at hand--) on x86/Win32... ( FYI the Linux box is a Pentium ( w/o FDIV bug, with F00F bug ), and the Win2k one is a PIII, but I don't think that makes a difference ) > of a hack, but I'm not sure I agree with the idea behind the test in the > first place. Nor am I Regards Mattia ------- End of forwarded message -------