[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.2.2 - third final candidate

Dan Brotsky dev@brotsky.com
Sun, 3 Nov 2002 23:32:17 -0800


On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 10:32 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>>> 3 tests failed:
>>>     test_frozen test_math test_socket
>
> test_math failed? That's wierd, and I'd think something to be concerned
> about!

I'll leave it to others to figure if I should be concerned:

 >>> math.sqrt(-1)
nan

which suggests that the following comment from the math_test lib is 
relevant:

     # If this fails, it could be a puzzle.  One odd possibility is that
     # mathmodule.c's macros are getting confused while comparing
     # Inf (HUGE_VAL) to a NaN, and artificially setting errno to ERANGE
     # as a result (and so raising OverflowError instead).

Jack, should I be worried?

     dan