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Title: test_coercion failing on Panther
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Components: macOS Versions:
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Status: closed Resolution: fixed
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Assigned To: jackjansen Nosy List: jackjansen, jyasskin, tim.peters
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Created on 2003-07-22 21:16 by jackjansen, last changed 2022-04-10 16:10 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg17260 - (view) Author: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) * (Python committer) Date: 2003-07-22 21:16
Test_coercion is failing on Panther. All the failures have the 
same form: the output is (XXX-0j) in stead of the expected 
(XXX+0j).
msg17261 - (view) Author: Tim Peters (tim.peters) * (Python committer) Date: 2003-07-22 21:29
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Ignore it -- the sign of a float 0 is more accidental than not.  
If the compiler has a switch to disable generation of fused 
multiply-add instructions, the failure will probably go away.

After 2.3, we should rewrite the test so that "sign of 0" cases 
aren't even tried anymore.
msg17262 - (view) Author: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) * (Python committer) Date: 2003-07-23 09:04
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Edward had also come across the bug, and suggests the following:

The workaround is to add the complier flag "-mno-fused-madd".  
This works for Jaguar and Panther, but I don't know how far back 
it may go.  My test report for c1 uses this flag.

The question is: do we fix this for rc2 or leave it?
msg17263 - (view) Author: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) * (Python committer) Date: 2003-07-23 22:19
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Fixed in configure.in rev. 1.427, configure rev. 1.416.
msg63648 - (view) Author: Jeffrey Yasskin (jyasskin) * (Python committer) Date: 2008-03-17 15:07
I reverted this in r61436 to fix issue 1779871. Either the test has
changed in the mean time, or the gccs bundled since OS X 10.4 now
preserve the signs of 0.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-10 16:10:08adminsetgithub: 38907
2008-03-17 15:07:50jyasskinsetnosy: + jyasskin
messages: + msg63648
2003-07-22 21:16:50jackjansencreate