Re: PPC floating equality vs. byte compilation

2005-07-11 Thread Michael Hudson
Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Donn Cave] I ran into a phenomenon that seemed odd to me, while testing a build of Python 2.4.1 on BeOS 5.04, on PowerPC 603e. test_builtin.py, for example, fails a couple of

PPC floating equality vs. byte compilation

2005-07-09 Thread Donn Cave
I ran into a phenomenon that seemed odd to me, while testing a build of Python 2.4.1 on BeOS 5.04, on PowerPC 603e. test_builtin.py, for example, fails a couple of tests with errors claiming that apparently identical floating point values aren't equal. But it only does that when imported, and

Re: PPC floating equality vs. byte compilation

2005-07-09 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Donn Cave wrote: I ran into a phenomenon that seemed odd to me, while testing a build of Python 2.4.1 on BeOS 5.04, on PowerPC 603e. test_builtin.py, for example, fails a couple of tests with errors claiming that apparently identical floating point values aren't equal. But it only does that

Re: PPC floating equality vs. byte compilation

2005-07-09 Thread Tim Peters
[Donn Cave] I ran into a phenomenon that seemed odd to me, while testing a build of Python 2.4.1 on BeOS 5.04, on PowerPC 603e. test_builtin.py, for example, fails a couple of tests with errors claiming that apparently identical floating point values aren't equal. But it only does that when

Re: PPC floating equality vs. byte compilation

2005-07-09 Thread Terry Reedy
Tim Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Donn Cave] I ran into a phenomenon that seemed odd to me, while testing a build of Python 2.4.1 on BeOS 5.04, on PowerPC 603e. test_builtin.py, for example, fails a couple of tests with errors claiming that apparently