[Python-Dev] test_coercion failing

[Thomas Wouters]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:33:15PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> Everyone!  Run this program under current CVS:

> x = 0.0
> print "%.17g" % -x
> print "%+.17g" % -x

> What do you get?  WinTel prints "0" for the first and "+0" for the second.

On BSDI (both 4.0 (gcc 2.7.2.1) and 4.1 (egcs 1.1.2 (2.91.66)) as well as
FreeBSD 4.2 (gcc 2.95.2):

>>> x = 0.0
>>> print "%.17g" % -x
0
>>> print "%+.17g" % -x
+0

Note that neither use GNU libc even though they use gcc.

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Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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