Re: gnuplot numerical errors on Intel MacBook

[CM <mon...@gm...>]

I suppose this means that the next question from gnuplot's side of things i=
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"Should we fiddle with auto configuration to work around this?"

On 9/24/06, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker <br...@ph...> wrote:
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> CM wrote:
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> > configure:8573: checking whether signgam is declared
> > configure:8607: gcc -c -g -O2   -I/usr/X11R6/include conftest.c >&5
> > configure:8613: $? =3D 0
> > configure:8620: test -z "$ac_c_werror_flag" || test ! -s conftest.err
> > configure:8623: $? =3D 0
> > configure:8630: test -s conftest.o
> > configure:8633: $? =3D 0
> > configure:8645: result: yes
> >
> > Is this what you expected?
>
> Not really.  What this set of observations means is that the signgam
> aspect of the gamma() implementation on Intel Macs is rather
> interestingly broken.  That's about as far as gnuplot's end of the
> problem can be traced.  For the rest you'll have to bring this to the
> attention of Mac experts, or maybe Apple themselves.  It might be some
> unwanted side effect of someone's try to make gamma() thread-safe.
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