Ruby Issue Tracking System

05/30/2010

08:45 PM Ruby Bug #3365: floats revisited (see bug 1841)

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I'm confused. how does that match either of: the system's own handling of doubles (which the ruby api docs say it uses) or the IEEE754 specification (which would require to have a minum of 1 more zero in the tail)

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06:41 PM Ruby Bug #3365 (Rejected): floats revisited (see bug 1841)

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someone posted that the float errors were just fine by them, referring to IEEE 754. I suggest visiting that standard yourself before closing the bug. If you look at the bug as reported, there is a rounding error on the 16th digit... blue_anna (Roberto Tomás Collins McCarthy)

08:39 PM Ruby Bug #3366: compile errors ruby192p2 (rubyspec-matzruby-827b92f)

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sorry I'm using git .. so far as I know it's the current ruby 1.9.2.preview2. here's the github link: http://github.com/rubyspec/matzruby/tarball/v1_9_2_preview2

I did a
make distclean && find . -type f -exec ~/bin/gres.rb... blue_anna (Roberto Tomás Collins McCarthy)

06:56 PM Ruby Bug #3366 (Closed): compile errors ruby192p2 (rubyspec-matzruby-827b92f)

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make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/roberto/Código/rubyspec-matzruby-827b92f/ext/coverage'
compiling curses
/home/roberto/Código/rubyspec-matzruby-827b92f/lib/mkmf.rb:685:in `[]': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (Argume... blue_anna (Roberto Tomás Collins McCarthy)