Possible bug (was Re: numpy, overflow, inf, ieee, and rich comparison)

[Martin Luethi]

I just tried out these examples on Linux (SuSE 6.4 on PIII) and Solaris 5.7
(on Sparc architecture) and I get different behaviour with for the
expressions. Both Python interpreters have been compiled with a nearly
identical version of gcc

Python 1.6b1 (#1, Aug 23 2000, 16:12:27) [GCC 2.95.1 19990816 (release)] on
sunos5:

>>> print exp(-746.0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OverflowError: math range error

Python 1.6 (#1, Oct 3 2000, 20:47:38) [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on
linux2:

>>> print exp(-746.0)
0.0

>From this I suspect some libc incompatibility.

Hope this helps....

Martin Lüthi