New submission from Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org>:
Sorry to report so many obscure corner cases. With the combination
Opensolaris/suncc/Python3.x copysign() gives reversed results when the
second argument is a NaN. The bug is in the C99 copysign() function
(OpenSolaris/suncc), but Python2.6 seems to have a workaround:
Python 3.2a0 (py3k:76144, Nov 7 2009, 18:50:00) [C] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from math import *
>>> copysign(1.0, float("nan"))
-1.0
>>> copysign(1.0, float("-nan"))
1.0
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Nov 7 2009, 19:29:52) [C] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from math import copysign
>>> copysign(1.0, float("nan"))
1.0
>>> copysign(1.0, float("-nan"))
-1.0
>>>
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messages: 95027
nosy: mark.dickinson, skrah
severity: normal
status: open
title: copysign() with NaN arguments on OpenSolaris
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2
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