Re: GNU Smalltalk math bugs

[David G. Pickett]

Yes, ubuntu.  The bugs seem so old, and obvious, is this a defunct project?

-----Original Message-----
From: stes@PANDORA.BE <stes@telenet.be>
To: David G. Pickett <DavidGPickett@comcast.net>
Cc: help-smalltalk <help-smalltalk@gnu.org>
Sent: Sun, Feb 14, 2021 6:55 am
Subject: Re: GNU Smalltalk math bugs


Also note that I believe a similar issue is already in the Linux Debian bug 
database on GST.
Are you using Debian and if not so, what kind of Linux ?

On Solaris, in GNU smalltalk I'm using a 32bit version of GST and I get:

st> 1.234567890q0
1.23456789
st>  1.23456789123456789q0
1.23456789123456789
st> 1.2345678987654321d0
1.234567898765432
st> 1e-4
0.00001
st> 1e-5
0.00001
st> 1e-3
0.001
st> .1d0
stdin:7: expected expression
st> .1d0
stdin:8: expected expression
st> 0.1d0
0.1
st> 1.23456789123456789d0
1.234567891234568


Note that the result 1e-5 and 1e-4 are the same for me ,
but this is not a problem for internal arithmetic.

The internal representation is OK (and arithmetic on the objects is also OK);
I think this is somewhere some issue in the external printing routines 
"displaying" the internal representation / converting it to output format.

Regards,
David Stes


----- Op 13 feb 2021 om 18:08 schreef David G. Pickett 
DavidGPickett@comcast.net:

> Running gst on Linux, the blizzard of math errors and invalid exceptions
> is a real disgrace.  Just entering numbers makes it disgrace itself:
> 
> dgp@dgp-p6803w:~
> $ (cd smalltalk-3.2.91 ; ./gst)
> GNU Smalltalk ready
> 
> st> 1.234567890q0
> 1.23456789
> st> 1.23456789123456789q0
> 1.253
> st> 1.2345678987654321d0
> 1.23456789876501
> st> 1e-4
> 0.00001
> st> 1e-5
> 0.0000063715563
> st> 1e-3
> 0.001
> st> .1d0
> stdin:7: expected expression
> st> 0.1d0
> 0.1
> st> 1.23456789123456789d0
> 1.35236
> st>