Unit test error with numpy rc3
Travis Oliphant
oliphant.travis at ieee.org
Thu Oct 26 12:14:33 EDT 2006
Ted Horst wrote:
> On Mac OS X tiger (10.4) ppc, long double has increased precision but
> the same range as double (it really is 128 bits not 80, btw), so
> e**1000 is inf, so this is not really an error.
>
>
Thanks for the clarification. Long-double is not standard across
platforms with different platforms choosing to do different things with
the extra bytes. This helps explain one more platform.
> I'm not sure what is the right thing to do in the test, check for
> overflow? Also, finfo has never worked properly for this type.
>
In machar.py is the code that runs to detect all of the parameters. I
think the code should be moved to C as detecting precision on a
long-double takes too long.
The overflow check is a good idea. The test should probably check for
overflow and not try to run if it's detected.
-Travis
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