On 08/31/2011 04:48 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > The test-float test is failing on ppc64 with: > > gcc version 4.4.4 20100630 (Red Hat 4.4.4-10) (GCC) > (albeit an aging Fedora 12 system) > > due to the failure of this assertion: > > ASSERT (LDBL_MIN_EXP <= DBL_MIN_EXP); > > It fails because of these numbers: > > $ :|gcc -dD -E -include stddef.h -|grep -E 'L?DBL_MIN_EXP' > #define __DBL_MIN_EXP__ (-1021) > #define __LDBL_MIN_EXP__ (-968) > > I propose to comment out that test for now, just prior > to the coreutils-8.13 pre-release snapshot.
Looks good. That surprising behavior caught me out in coreutils too: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=766ec503 cheers, Pádraig.
