Re: Release plans: Version 4.4.4 and beyond

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Tuesday, 11 October 2011, pl...@pi... wrote:
> On 10/11/11 17:53, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 11 October 2011, pl...@pi... wrote:
> >>
> >> I saw "not_a_number for MinGW build (gcc-4.5.0)" was committed just over
> >> a year ago but did not seem to be fixed in 4.4.3 release in March.
> >
> > The same fix (10-10-2010) went into stdfn.c in both 4.4 and 4.5
> > Note that this fix only deals with initializing the NaN variable internally.
> > It does not correct for any oddities in the C-language support library.
> > I.e., if the library routines fscanf() and atod() cannot deal with the
> > string "NaN" in an input file, that's a separate problem.
> > I don't know whether or not that is an issue with MinGW.
> >
> > What is the symptom?
> > If you start the program and say "print NaN", what does it show?
> >
> > 	Ethan
> >
> Hi,
> 
> yes that's exactly the problem as reported in that bug.
> 
> print NaN;
>   gives me zero .
> (apart from nothing using NaN behaving as expected)

Huh. Well, all I can say is that the fix was already in the source at
the time 4.4.3 was released.

The windows executables from Tatsuro Matsuoka's site do not
suffer from this problem:
   http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/

	Ethan

> 
> thx.
> 
> 
> >
> >> I don't use "other" OSes myself but I'm helping a college who has that
> >> misfortune. He is very impressed with gnuplot which I encouraged him to
> >> use and gave his a script for his data to get him started. However, I
> >> had to do a messy hack to get around the NaN=0 bug in the windoze build
> >> he got from SF.
> >>
> >> I don't have a cross-compilation set up for mwing so I can't build it here.
> >>
> >> Will this be fixed in next release?
> >>
> >> Best regards, Peter.
> >>
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