On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Michael Schlenker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shane Harrelson schrieb: > > Sorry for the late reply. I use both the ActiveTCL and the Cygwin > > distributions for testing on Windows. > > It should be noted that both versions have limitations that will cause > > "false positives" in the test suite. > > > > Be on the look out especially for problems with 64-integers and floating > > point values. > > I believe the ActiveTCL distribution uses a 3 digit mantissa to display > > floating point values > > which throws off the checking in the test suite. > That sounds strange. > > Might be more an issue with Tcl 8.4 vs. Tcl 8.5. Tcl 8.5 has a totally > revamped floating point handling, so that there should be no loss of > precision when converting a floating point through a string rep anymore > (and > Tcl got big integer support based on libtommath as a side effect). > It wasn't a loss of precision, it was mearly a display issue. The Windows ActiveTCL 8.5 distribution might display the floating point value as "5.4e-018" while the "unix" TCL 8.5 version would display "5.4e-18" (or something similar). There's probably an option to control this in TCL, but I couldn't find it with a quick check. > > Cygwin is not really a supported platform for Tcl anymore and the port is > old and strange. > > So, guess you should use the ActiveTcl 8.5 offering, unless DRH recommends > something older than Tcl 8.5 (which is the current stable branch while 8.4 > is getting its last update soon). > I test with both as to get assurance of greater compatibility with more versions on Windows. > > Michael > > -- > Michael Schlenker > Software Engineer > > CONTACT Software GmbH Tel.: +49 (421) 20153-80 > Wiener Straße 1-3 Fax: +49 (421) 20153-41 > 28359 Bremen > http://www.contact.de/ E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Bremen > Geschäftsführer: Karl Heinz Zachries, Ralf Holtgrefe > Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Bremen unter HRB 13215 > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
