Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> added the comment:

On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 06:17:44PM +0000, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> I'm really reluctant to (even conditionally) skip the test, because it's 
> doing exactly what it's designed to do, namely detecting and reporting that 
> Python is giving poor results in this corner case on this platform. As 
> developers, we can blame the poor results on the platform's libm, but that 
> doesn't help the user.

I would want the tests to fail, especially if it can occur on Linux (though I
still suspect an i686 router in the reported case).

Perhaps hide them behind -uall, so that *we* see the result but just
executing ./python -m test passes.

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