Re: Dodgy functions

2016-03-24 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > Long story short, they seem to report a finite value on at least some > NaN constructs and then the %a format for the Perl sprintf outputs those > bits as a hex FP number rather than just printing "NaN". On 64bit the > culprit is actually finitel, of course, since Perl gets c

Dodgy functions (was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.5.0-0.8)

2016-03-24 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: >> Doing that seems to have changed the behaviour of sprintf and now one of >> the tests involving NaN and the %a format fails. Ideas? > > Can you be more specific? I've finally drilled to the bottom of this (on 64bit so far, but the issues and workarounds are quite likel