On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> What system are you running for which you would expect an exact match of
> test results in the transcendental functions?
I think the general point is that it'd be nice if regression tests didn't
report failure due to numerical noise. :-)
> > The things is that the expected file was last changed without the input
> > file changing. This must not happen, IMNSHO.
>
> I had carefully inspected the differences (over and over and over) and
> they were all trivial last-decimal-place kinds of things afaicr.
> Actually, I'm responding here like I'm the one who made the change, but
> I haven't gone back to the cvs logs to confirm that.
Is there some way we can make the tests smart enough to only printout the
significant digits, so that if there is a difference, it is important?
Take care,
Bill
