Re: PPC floating equality vs. byte compilation

2005-07-11 Thread Michael Hudson
"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Tim Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [Donn Cave] > >> I ran into a phenomenon that seemed odd to me, while testing a > >> build of Python 2.4.1 on BeOS 5.04, on PowerPC 603e. > >> > >> test_builtin.py, for examp

Re: PPC floating equality vs. byte compilation

2005-07-09 Thread Terry Reedy
"Tim Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [Donn Cave] >> I ran into a phenomenon that seemed odd to me, while testing a >> build of Python 2.4.1 on BeOS 5.04, on PowerPC 603e. >> >> test_builtin.py, for example, fails a couple of tests with errors >> claiming that

Re: PPC floating equality vs. byte compilation

2005-07-09 Thread Tim Peters
[Donn Cave] > I ran into a phenomenon that seemed odd to me, while testing a > build of Python 2.4.1 on BeOS 5.04, on PowerPC 603e. > > test_builtin.py, for example, fails a couple of tests with errors > claiming that apparently identical floating point values aren't equal. > But it only does that

Re: PPC floating equality vs. byte compilation

2005-07-09 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Donn Cave wrote: > I ran into a phenomenon that seemed odd to me, while testing a > build of Python 2.4.1 on BeOS 5.04, on PowerPC 603e. > > test_builtin.py, for example, fails a couple of tests with errors > claiming that apparently identical floating point values aren't equal. > But it only does

PPC floating equality vs. byte compilation

2005-07-08 Thread Donn Cave
I ran into a phenomenon that seemed odd to me, while testing a build of Python 2.4.1 on BeOS 5.04, on PowerPC 603e. test_builtin.py, for example, fails a couple of tests with errors claiming that apparently identical floating point values aren't equal. But it only does that when imported, and only