On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Cournapeau wrote: > > The current trunk has 14 failures on windows (with mingw). 12 of them > > are related to C99 (see ticket 869). Can the people involved in recent > > changes to complex functions take a look at it ? I think this is high > > priority for 1.2.0 > > I'm asking just out of curiosity. Why is NumPy using C99 and what > features of C99 are used? The Microsoft compilers aren't supporting C99 > and they'll probably never will. I don't know if the Intel CC supports > C99. Even GCC doesn't implement C99 to its full extend. Are you planing > to restrict yourself to MinGW32? > I believe C99 was used as a guide to how complex corner cases involving +/-0, +/-inf, etc. should behave. However, it doesn't look possible to make that behaviour portable without a lot of work and it probably isn't worth the trouble. At the moment the failing tests have been removed. Chuck
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