Re: GNU Guile 2.1.5 released (beta)

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

Just a note -- your work here is really appreciated!  I know I'm a
verrrry async with patches but your work is indeed appreciated,
especially in the run-up to a 2.2.0 when I hope to have handled most all
these bugs.

Andy

On Mon 12 Dec 2016 02:25, Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com> writes:

>  On Dec 11, 2016, at 12:35 PM, Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  With patches I can compile and run “make check”. But now I have one failure:t tests/numbers.test line 1663: (“#i1@-0” 1.0 -0.0). 
>
>  This wants the following to produce #t, but it does not:
>
>  scheme@(guile-user)> (define z (string->number "#i1@-0"))
>  scheme@(guile-user)> (eqv? (imag-part z) -0.0)
>  $7 = #f
>
> Sorry to keep posting on this. I will stop soon. I seem to get different problems every time I build 2.1.5 on my Mac. I am using some different config options (e.g., with and without
> —disable-shared) and different compilers. The above issue does not show up with the current build. Note the following separate builds that give different values for the above:
>
> mwette$ pwd
> /Users/mwette/proj/scheme/guile/guile-2.1.5
> mwette$ meta/guile -c '(display (eqv? (imag-part (string->number "#i1@-0")) -0.0))'
> #f
>
> mwette$ pwd
> /Users/mwette/proj/scheme/guile/guile-2.1.5-2
> mwette$ meta/guile -c '(display (eqv? (imag-part (string->number "#i1@-0")) -0.0))'
> #t