[phobos] fuzzy C floating point

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 21 22:29:46 PST 2011


On 1/21/2011 10:21 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On 1/21/2011 8:38 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10. So far, it seems to work, but the std.conv unit
>> tests for Phobos1 are failing. Seems that strtof() doesn't work the same. Argh.
> 
> My linux 64 bit box is running 10.10.. not that helps a lot as I do primarily 64
> bit development.  I rarely run 32 bit builds though.  I'll do a 32 bit test pass
> over d1 and d2 on it right now.

d1 32 bit's phobos tests does fail with:
  Error: conversion 1.17549e-38 not representable as a float

d2 32 bit's phobos tests are clean.


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