[Python-Dev] 2.2.1c1 platform reports.

[Michael Hudson]

Hye-Shik Chang <perky@fallin.lv> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:44:52AM +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:
> > 
> > OS: FreeBSD
> > 
> > test_math.test_exceptions blows up with "sqrt(-1) does not raise
> > ValueError".  It seems FreeBSD's libm doesn't set errno in this case,
> > and that MacOSX has inherited this behaviour (see below)
> > 
> > OS: OpenBSD
> > 
> > test_signal hangs on the sf compile farm.  We've had reports of this
> > before.  I can't be bothered to dig into it today.
> > 
> > OS: NetBSD
> > 
> > no reports.
> > 
> 
> All *BSDs are using msun of Sun as math library.
> NetBSD and OpenBSD may be same with FreeBSD.

I don't think they are, surprisingly.

[...]
> I'll submit PR to both of FreeBSD and NetBSD.

I'm not sure it's a problem.  I believe it depends on whether you
believe in C89 or C99, for instance.

Cheers,
M.

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