Re: [Python-Dev] Floating point test_pow failure on the alpha Debian buildbot

2007-07-26 Thread Tim Peters
[Nick Coghlan] > test_pow is failing on the alpha Debian buildbot, complaining that a > negative number can't be raised to a fractional power. Now, to work > around some bugs in platform implementations of math.fpow(), pow() does > its own check to see if the exponent is an integer. > > The way pow

[Python-Dev] Floating point test_pow failure on the alpha Debian buildbot

2007-07-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
test_pow is failing on the alpha Debian buildbot, complaining that a negative number can't be raised to a fractional power. Now, to work around some bugs in platform implementations of math.fpow(), pow() does its own check to see if the exponent is an integer. The way pow() does that check is t