On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Julian Taylor < jtaylor.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> hi, > numpys no-C99 fallback keeps turning up issues in corner cases, e.g. > hypot https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/2385 > log1p https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/4225 > > these only seem to happen on windows, on linux and mac it seems to use > the C99 math library just fine. > > Are our binary builds for windows not correct or does windows just not > support C99 math? > Ms compilers have not supported much of C > C89. Up to recently, they even said publicly something close to "we don't care about C, C is legacy and you should use C++": http://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and-c99/ But it looks like they are finally changing their stance: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/c99-library-support-in-visual-studio-2013.aspx Of course, it will be a while before we can rely on this, but hey, it only took them 14 years ! David > > Hopefully it is the former. Any insight is appreciated (and patches to > fix the build even more!) > > Cheers, > Julian > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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