On 11/13/06, SADAHIRO Tomoyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:34:55 -0800, Chip Salzenberg (via RT) wrote
> because the Perl sprintf test suite seems to think that the right value
> for sprintf('%e',1) is "1e+00", but Win32 seems to return "1e+000" (note
> the extra digit in the exponent). Is this true? If so, is it a bug? In
> any case, how does the Perl test suite not fail on Win32?
It just drops the superfluous zero from the return value.
ick -- that feels wrong for parrot. we've always tried to make parrot
act in a consistent way across platforms wherever possible, so i'd
rather see the fix in Parrot_sprintf rather than in t/op/sprintf.t.
~jerry