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On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 01:42:29PM +0000, Zefram wrote:
> slaven@rezic.de wrote:
> ># Failed test 'rounding'
> ># at t/008integerize.t line 208.
>
> It's failing due to the new correct output for sprintf("%.0f", -0.0).
> It is only the test that is erroneous. The processing in that file uses
> the module's integerize_coordinate_sets() sub to round a -0.4 value,
> for which it gets the entirely reasonable result of -0.0. It compares
> this against an expected result of 0 (implemented as an integer zero)
> by applying sprintf("%.0f", $_) to both and string-comparing the results.
>
> There are two possible fixes for the test. One is to change the value
> in its expected-result data structure to a negative zero. That would
> have the effect of testing that the sub under test produces the negative
> zero where expected. The other option is to alter the way values are
> canonicalised for comparison to drop the sign from zeroes. That would
> have the effect of ignoring the sign of zero.
Since its an issue with the distribution, I'll close this ticket.
I've created a cpan.rt ticket for the issue:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125139
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