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Re: M4 1.4.9b testsuite failure
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: M4 1.4.9b testsuite failure |
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Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:11:41 +0200 |
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> The purpose of the test is not to create a signalling NaN (despite the
> comment saying so). The purpose is to create a binary representation of
> a NaN that is not one of the "usual" NaNs.
Even if that were true (which obviously isn't), it still fails to do
that. When run on the m68k extended real format it creates a bit
representation that only differes in a padding bit, which is completely
ignored anyway. This shows that the test in the current form is
useless.
Andreas.
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