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Re: nextafter and forced rounding
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:31:00AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I'm seeing this on x86 in test-float:
>
> testing float (without inline functions)
> Failure: Test: nextafter (0, -1) == -fltmin
> Result:
> is: -1.40129846432481707092e-45 -0x1.00000000000000000000p-149
> should be: -1.40129846432481707092e-45 -0x1.00000000000000000000p-149
> difference: 0.00000000000000000000e+00 0x0.00000000000000000000p+0
That's ... odd. How can you have a miscompare with identical values?
r~