Erik Bray wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry if this has been discussed ad-infinitum before--I looked around
> a bit but didn't find a definitive answer.
> 
> I have one (well at least one) test that's failing on Cygwin due to
> tiny difference in the last digit of the result of log(3).
> 
> This leads to to several questions:
> 
> 1) Is it worth investigating the reason for the difference?

I thought you had already tracked it down to "libc math" (= libm I guess).

Which log() btw.?  logf(), log(), logl()?  (Presumably not clog*().)


-leif

> 2) Is it worth trying to provide a workaround for the difference?
> 3) Or should the test just be updated to ignore the last couple digits
> of the result, and if so how (ellipses?)
> 
> Thanks,
> Erik


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