Re: [R-pkg-devel] Discovering M1mac cowpads

2023-03-24 Thread Simon Urbanek
John, you provide no details to go on, but generally the main difference is that arm64 uses 64-bit precision for long double (which is permitted by the C standard), while Intel uses 80-bits of precision (on systems that enable it). That leads to differences in results, e.g. when computing long

[R-pkg-devel] Discovering M1mac cowpads

2023-03-24 Thread J C Nash
Recently I updated my package nlsr and it passed all the usual checks and was uploaded to CRAN. A few days later I got a message that I should "fix" my package as it had failed in "M1max" tests. The "error" was actually a failure in a DIFFERENT package that was used as an example in a vignette. I