+2011-08-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+ tests: avoid spurious assertion failure in test-float.c on ppc64
+ * tests/test-float.c (test_long_double): Comment out an assertion,
+ LDBL_MIN_EXP <= DBL_MIN_EXP, that is failing at least on PowerPC-64
+ with gcc-4.4.4.
+
2011-08-31 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
freopen: Documentation.
/* Check that 'long double' is at least as wide as 'double'. */
ASSERT (LDBL_MANT_DIG >= DBL_MANT_DIG);
- ASSERT (LDBL_MIN_EXP <= DBL_MIN_EXP);
+
+ /* Normally, we would also assert this:
+ ASSERT (LDBL_MIN_EXP <= DBL_MIN_EXP);
+ but at least on powerpc64 with gcc-4.4.4, it would fail:
+ $ :|gcc -dD -E -include stddef.h -|grep -E 'L?DBL_MIN_EXP'
+ #define __DBL_MIN_EXP__ (-1021)
+ #define __LDBL_MIN_EXP__ (-968)
+ */
ASSERT (LDBL_MAX_EXP >= DBL_MAX_EXP);
/* Check the value of LDBL_DIG. */