On Saturday 29 September 2001 04:45, Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs wrote: > In perl sin(1) != sin(1.0) or in C or in both? > > Also, what version of the OS is this, SunOS 5.8 works fine.
Perl equal and C not equal, that is. bash-2.03$ perl -le 'if(sin(1) == sin(1.0)){print "equal"}else{print "not equal"}' equal bash-2.03$ ./sin not equal bash-2.03$ cat sin.c # include <math.h> int main() { if(sin(1) == sin(1.0)) { printf("equal\n"); } else { printf("not equal\n"); } return(1); } bash-2.03$ uname -a SunOS usf-cf-sparc-solaris-2 5.8 Generic_108528-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 bash-2.03$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris uname='sunos localhost 5.8 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-1 ' hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef Compiler: cc='cc', optimize='-xO3 -xdepend', gccversion= cppflags='' ccflags ='' stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags ='' libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-R /usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris/CORE' cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Built under solaris Compiled at Dec 22 1999 00:00:57 @INC: /usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris /usr/perl5/5.00503 /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .