[issue3167] math test fails on Solaris 10

[Jean Brouwers]

Jean Brouwers <MrJean1 at Gmail.com> added the comment:

Mark,

Take a look at the SUN forum, there is a (long) answer.

<http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5308106&tstart=0>

/Jean

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Jean Brouwers <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Jean Brouwers <MrJean1 at Gmail.com> added the comment:
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> Right on!  With errno = 0; in between both calls:
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> -Inf 33
> Inf 0
>
> /Jean
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> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Mark Dickinson <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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>> Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:
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>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Jean Brouwers <report at bugs.python.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> result is different for 32- and 64-bit
>>>
>>> > cc -xtarget=native log_inf.c -lm ; a.out
>>> -Inf 33
>>> Inf 33
>>>
>>
>> That 33 for the second log call may just be the propagated errno value
>> from the first call.  Could you try setting errno = 0 before each of the
>> printf
>> calls?  I'd expect that log(HUGE_VAL) doesn't set errno at all.
>>
>> Mark
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>> Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10722/unnamed
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