FloatTest

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Fri May 5 15:59:30 UTC 2006


http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=3133

2006/5/5, Thomas Koenig <tomkoenig at mindspring.com>:
>
> Does anyone have an insight into how we ought to resolve these two FloatTest
> failures.
> FloatTest>>ttestNaN5  and >>testZero2 fail in 3.9a 7025.  Can they can be
> fixed or do we think they're pointing to real problems in Float re ieee754?
>
> > From: Paul McDonough wrote
> > ... back to school ... in any case, I'm not 'ppm.'
> > Although I'm sure I was at the same table where those
> > tests were being worked on at CS4 ... hm, don't
> > remember any ppm's.  Roger Whitney worked on Floats, I
> > think?  And/or Jeff Hallman?
>
>
> > --- Thomas Koenig <tomkoenig at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > > Paul,
> > > Hi.  We're trying to get all s-unit tests to run clean
> > > in 3.9.  I think you
> > > added the following test cases (initials are ppm)
> > > which is why I want to get
> > > your opinion on how to proceed. FloatTest>>ttestNaN5
> > > and >>testZero2 fail in
> > > 3.9a 7025.  Can they can be fixed or do you think
> > > they're pointing to real
> > > problems in Float re ieee754? In the latter case
> > > maybe they should be marked
> > > "expected errors"?
> > > Thanks for any help. Tom
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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