> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paulex Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:11 PM
> To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [build] anybody seeing MathTest failure?
> 
> Nathan Beyer wrote:
> > For asserting NaN we should do something like this:
> >
> > assertTrue(Double.isNaN((code to return NaN));
> >
> I agree, it's much clear and concise. But I think the assertEquals()
> should  be more defensive, for example, we may need to write test like
> this:
> 
> assertEquals(some code may return NaN, some_other_code may return NaN,
> delta);

I'm not sure that I would agree with that; NaN is a special value that's
defined by its inequality with itself (d != d).

In any case, the JUnit methods have worked like this for years, so their
behavior couldn't change now.

> 
> > -Nathan
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Paulex Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:50 AM
> >> To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: [build] anybody seeing MathTest failure?
> >>
> >> Mikhail Loenko wrote:
> >>
> >>> it works! thanks, Paulex
> >>>
> >> Welcome, thanks a lot for Spark's tips:).
> >>
> >> However, I consider it as a JUnit's bug, because it's
> >> assertEquals(String, double, double, double) method has special
> handling
> >> code for INFINITE but not for NaN[1], but seems it is intended behavior
> >> as the comment shows, hmm...
> >>
> >> [1] snippet from junit.framework.Assert
> >>     static public void assertEquals(String message, double expected,
> >> double actual, double delta) {
> >>         // handle infinity specially since subtracting to infinite
> >> values gives NaN and the
> >>         // the following test fails
> >>         if (Double.isInfinite(expected)) {
> >>             if (!(expected == actual))
> >>                 failNotEquals(message, new Double(expected), new
> >> Double(actual));
> >>         } else if (!(Math.abs(expected-actual) <= delta)) // Because
> >> comparison with NaN always returns false    (<== Paulex: before this
> >> line, seems should check the NaN at first)
> >>             failNotEquals(message, new Double(expected), new
> >> Double(actual));
> >>     }
> >>
> >>> 2006/9/12, Paulex Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>>
> >>>> Seems caused by r442438, I have recovered part of the update to make
> >>>>
> >> the
> >>
> >>>> test pass at revision r442527, please verify.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> --
> >> Paulex Yang
> >> China Software Development Lab
> >> IBM
> >>
> >>
> >>
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