Error in "pow" on Itanium
Andrew M. Kuchling
akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Thu Apr 6 12:55:29 EDT 2000
Robert Hundt <rhundt at cup.hp.com> writes:
> Running Python 1.5.2 as a 64-bit process on Itanium delivers an error in
> test_pow. The test delivers different results whenever run! Sometimes it
> even succeeds!
pow() does different things for integers, floats, and long integers;
which is the version that fails? The float version in
Objects/floatobject.c seems to just check for special cases and then
calls pow() from the C library, so that's probably OK. Either the
integer or long integer versions might well run into trouble on a new
64-bit platform, though.
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