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Perl-5.23.1: Requesting a small change to dist/Math-BigInt/t/bigintpm.inc (in perl source test suite) #14814
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From @sisyphusHi, This is a long standing issue for me with my PPC long double (double double) Assuming that an exponent of +129 is no more (and no less) "special" than an ========================================================== Inline Patch--- bigintpm.inc_orig 2015-07-24 20:56:00 +1000
+++ bigintpm.inc 2015-07-25 00:08:20 +1000
@@ -437,10 +437,10 @@
############################################################################### # test for whitespace including newlines to be handled correctly ========================================================== My reason is pretty simple. $ perl -le '$x = 1e+129; print $x;' As a consequence, the following perl test scripts inevitably fail (just one ../dist/Math-BigInt/t/bare_mbi.t These failures do not reflect a problem with Math::BigInt - they are simply I believe that such small errors are common to most systems - though the It so happens that a similar problem occurs with an exponent of +128 (and There's no great problem for me in having those tests fail, except that Here's the perl -V: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 23 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Cheers, |
From @sisyphus-----Original Message-----
I meant to also provide the actual diagnostic for that failing test in those # Failed test at t/bigintpm.inc line 443. Cheers, |
From @jkeenanOn Fri Jul 24 07:55:32 2015, sisyphus wrote:
Pinging contributors to Math::BigInt to request evaluation of this patch to the test suite. Thank you very much. -- |
The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open' |
Migrated from rt.perl.org#125678 (status was 'open')
Searchable as RT125678$
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