Pádraig Brady wrote: > 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
Thanks for the review and for digging that up. I knew it rang a bell ;-)
