Yeah, long double is going to break things because we are packing it into a
double and then memcpying it out like it is a long double. The
inconsistency is the problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Dax
To: Perl 6 Internals
Sent: 10/8/2001 1:36 PM
Subject: Itanium still a little ill
Moral of the story: long double breaks things for some reason. FYI,
Itanium has 16-byte long doubles.
Automated smoke report for patch Oct 8 07:00:01 2001 UTC
v0.01 on linux using cc version 2.96-ia64-000717 snap
001117
O = OK
F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom
? = still running or test results not (yet) available
Build failures during: - = unknown
c = Configure, m = make, t = make test-prep
Configuration
--- -------------------------------------------------------------------
-
O O --defaults
O O --defaults --define nv=double
F F --defaults --define nv=\"long double\"
O O --defaults --define iv=long
O O --defaults --define iv=long --define nv=double
F F --defaults --define iv=long --define nv=\"long double\"
O O --defaults --define iv=\"long long\"
O O --defaults --define iv=\"long long\" --define nv=double
F F --defaults --define iv=\"long long\" --define nv=\"long double\"
| |
| +- --debugging
+--- normal
Failures:
linux --defaults --define nv=\"long double\"
linux --debugging --defaults --define nv=\"long double\"
linux --defaults --define iv=long --define nv=\"long double\"
linux --debugging --defaults --define iv=long --define nv=\"long
double\"
linux --defaults --define iv=\"long long\" --define nv=\"long
double\"
linux --debugging --defaults --define iv=\"long long\" --define
nv=\"long
double\"
t/op/integer........dubious DIED. FAILED test 25
--Brent Dax
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