Re: ilmbase

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:56:23AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> Also, is this the only test that's failing?
>>
>> Nope, there was another one later on IIRC. I'll disable the PosQNan2 
>> and NegQNan* checks and investigate.
>
> It so turns out that NaN handling by the testsuite was all that fails on  
> my machine, due to compiler and binutils assumptions about what's 
> counting as NaN on m68k. Basically, cpp does substitute anything that it 
> knows to not represent a valid float by a const nan of positive sign.
>
> The following patch to the HalfTest suite makes the testsuite failure go  
> away. Please apply. In the alternative, please indicate whether a binNMU  
> would be in order.

Dato told me on IRC yesterday that it would be okay for us to do so.
Please proceed.

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