Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A quick grep on the perl5 sources for 'negative zero' gets a fair number > of hits mentioning AIX, Digital Unix, and OpenBSD. sv.c contains some > legacy 'FIXNEGATIVEZERO' code as well.
... which seems not to be defined nor mentioned anywhere. > ... In short, it's probably best to > assume that some compilers will give us a negative zero sometimes. > Whether the parrot virtual machine should or should not hide that detail > is a good question Its coloring tinderboxen for no good reason. If something really got wrong its hidden. So IMHO we should either change the test or have a configure option and convert "-0.0*" to "0". > ... -- probably equivalent to whether parrot should spell > infinity "Inf" or "inf" or not care (and similarly for "nan" and "NaN"). Yep. leo
