# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #31046] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=31046 >
$ perl -Ilib t/pmc/perlnum.t ... not ok 36 - +- zero # Failed test (t/pmc/perlnum.t at line 690) # got: '0 # 0 # ' # expected: '0 # -0.000000 # ' The code being: output_is(<<'CODE', <<'OUTPUT', "+- zero"); new P0, .PerlNum set P0, 0.0 print P0 print "\n" set P0, -0.0 print P0 print "\n" end CODE 0 -0.000000 OUTPUT I don't think there is any guarantee how fp -0.0 should be printed by printf() (I could be wrong on this, as usual). Even if there is, unless Parrot does something about it (to fudge the result), I do not think a platform behaving slightly differently (like printing the negative zero as zero) is not a failure. How and why this happens could depend on a number of things: which fp mode was chosen when compiling, when executing, and so on. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
