[SciPy-dev] Pre-release fixes

[Travis Oliphant]

Robert Kern wrote:

> I've just checked in a fix for fastumath's logical functions. They 
> used to give wrong answers on OSX and caused some tests to fail. I 
> believe this to be an endianness issue, but I don't have another 
> big-endian machine to test on. All tests still pass on Athlon/Linux.
>
> The changes made largely track what Numeric did, so I'm not sure if 
> these were conscious deviations to speed up fastumath or just a 
> failure to keep up with the bugfixes in Numeric.
>
> I have only implemented fastumath_unsigned.inc as yet. I will make 
> similar changes in fastumath_nounsigned.inc as I accumulate tuits.
>
> Travis, could you check my changes to make sure I didn't revert 
> differences you deliberately made? If they were deliberate, then we 
> need to figure a way to revert to the correct, if slower, Numeric 
> implementations on the Mac.

I'm not sure what the problem is here.  But I think you undid deliberate 
changes that have implications for alter_numeric() and need to be 
discussed.  

I had intentially made the results of all logical operations be unsigned 
bytes.  What was broken about this on the Mac?

Could you explain your changes here, better?

-Travis