[phobos] phobos commit, revision 2186
Jonathan M Davis
jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sat Nov 20 17:10:34 PST 2010
On Saturday 20 November 2010 14:52:37 David Simcha wrote:
> Yeah, I checked this in even though it wasn't working on my computer. I
> was getting a couple specific failures that weren't happening to anyone
> else even before this revision (still trying to figure out why). I
> figured if these changes broke anything I'd just revert them immediately.
>
> Given both the fact that some tests fail on my computer and nowhere else
> and the seeming innocuousness of the changes I made and the fact that
> they broke something, I'm thinking maybe the unit tests are too strict.
> For example, my changes might have changed how constant folding is done,
> resulting in the least significant few bits being screwed up or
> something. Also, maybe subtleties of different hardware and/or
> different operating systems and C runtimes has an effect.
Didn't you say that you were running 64 bit windows whereas Don said that he was
running 32 bit windows? Could that be having any effect?
- Jonathan M Davis
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