>>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> writes:
Camm> Greetings! When compiling some functions that were previously
Camm> interpreted under gcl, I have one small test failure on 32bit intel
Camm> only:
Camm> ev (e7, alfa=2, vita=1); (of rtest8.mac)
Camm> returns
Camm> [0.052961027786557, 4.8572257327350623E-17, 50, 0]
Camm> insead of
Camm> [0.052961027786557, 5.551115123125785E-17, 50, 0]
Camm> This is solely due to the loss of one bit of precision in res24 of
Camm> slatec::dqc25s when the optimized compile is done in 64 bits instead
of
Camm> the 80 that are specially available on the x87 fpu:
[snip]
Camm> I don't really think this is a GCL bug, yet I've constructed the
debian
Camm> package build to fail on any test failure. Is there a way I can set
the
Camm> floating point tolerance higher here to let this result through?
Thanks for the detailed report. I think this particular test will need
to be restructured a bit to use my_float_approx_equal (or equivalent)
to check that the first return value is close enough. Maybe also that
third return value is 50 and the fourth is 0.
Ray
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