Re: Release plans: Version 4.4.4 and beyond

[<pl...@pi...>]

On 10/11/11 18:40, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks , I'll get it installed from that source.

For information the build giving problems was downloaded from SF within 
the last few days.

If the SF build is not as stated, maybe it should be replaced by Tatsuro 
Matsuoka's build.

BTW I see from the changelog , lots of work getting committed recently. 
Is 4.4.4 close to release or has it slipped back a bit?

regards. Peter.


>>
>> 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.