From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Strange problems with data-tests.el Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:24:23 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <3734e99d-5d0c-a5b6-50ca-3a60ab73c29e@cs.ucla.edu> References: <831sb3l9cx.fsf@gnu.org> <486fc1b9-88a7-93e0-dd45-4f8f1d8a77d1@cs.ucla.edu> <83o9e6joil.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534177412 600 195.159.176.226 (13 Aug 2018 16:23:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:23:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 13 18:23:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fpFcr-0008S3-T5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:23:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpFey-0003GT-IH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:25:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40083) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpFdw-0003E5-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:24:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpFdv-0003eI-CL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:24:32 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:51042) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpFdr-0003bc-9h; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0577016161C; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:24:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id Y9RfUL-JZsPA; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D3916161D; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:24:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id UtA4t4psGcnm; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.154.30.119]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15CAB16161C; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:24:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83o9e6joil.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228493 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > So I think this is a relatively old bug, and we should backport it to > the emacs-26 branch. WDYT? Although you could talk me into it, I think it's not serious enough to backport. It's merely a rounding error with numbers that are very close to each other, and rounding errors happen all the time anyway.