On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, chromatic wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2008 09:38:11 Andy Dougherty wrote:
>
> > > 3. 1 of the tests appears to fail depending on how the OS initial-
> > > cases 'Inf'. Again, could this be addressed in a hints file?
> >
> > This too is a long-standing problem: See [perl #19183]. It stalled
> > pending a decision on whether or not parrot should try to enforce a single
> > spelling of 'Inf' (and 'Nan', etc.) or whether the tests should patch over
> > the issue.
>
> What does Perl 5 do? Let's do that. (No one else has made a decision.)
I'm pretty sure Perl 5 just does whatever the underlying system does. At
lesat I don't remember ever writing any Configure tests to do otherwise,
and a quick look doesn't turn up anything obvious, and I don't think the
test suite specifically tests for it.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
