Subject: Re: PERL and NetBSD 1.3_ALPHA
To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/11/1997 09:55:07
Giles Lean wrote:
>
> OK, I've now got some C code with a wrong answer. I'll send-pr
> this later unless someone tells me it is obviously off the wall.
>
> #include <math.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> int
> main()
> {
> printf("%.15f\n", atan2(1, 1.2));
> exit(0);
> }
>
> This code produces:
>
> 0.785398163397448 on 1.3_ALPHA with the broken library
> 0.694738276196703 on 1.1
I tried this on mac68k. I get:
0.694738276196703
This is a 1.2G system running with a libm.so.0.1 compiled in mid-July.
So, I would assume that whatever is wrong occured fairly recently?
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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