Re: [bug-gawk] macOS: mpfrsqrt check fails on gawk-4.2-stable and master branches

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:03:57PM +0100, Hermann Peifer wrote:
> On 08.02.18 22:35, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> > Perhaps we should add a simple mpfrintdiv test to make sure that mpfr
> > is working properly in the intdiv extension. Maybe that's the right 
> > solution,
> > since mpfrsqrt is sufficiently complicated to obfuscate the problem...
> > 
> > Possible test case attached:
> 
> Works fine for me.
> 
> Thanks again for all your time, Hermann

Another idea is to patch the intdiv extension to issue a warning if it receives
MPFR arguments but was not compiled with MPFR support. A possible (untested)
patch is attached. I guess the question is whether we want to take the runtime
hit of checking this on each call when the extension wasn't built with MPFR.

Arnold -- what do you think?

Regards,
Andy

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