On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:41:59 +0200, Dominic Dunlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2005–07–29, at 16:49, Dominic Dunlop wrote: > > Investigating. > > Right. Patch attached. The PERL_DEBUG_COW definition for the SvNVX > was turning a negative zero into a positive zero. Since I don't have > access to a copy of the IEE 754 FP standard, the closest I can find > to a definitive definition of expected arithmetic results involving > positive and negative zeros is table 2.5 in <http://docs.hp.com/en/ > B3906-90005/ch02s02.html>. The patch makes the macro do the right > thing to preserve a zero's sign. > > All tests pass for me with make minitest. thanks, applied as change #25247 -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.5, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, SuSE 9.2 & 9.3, and Cygwin. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: http://www.test-smoke.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], perl-qa@perl.org
