Re: [Rapideuphoria-develop] Getting ready for 4.0.1

[Matt L. <mat...@gm...>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Derek Parnell <ddp...@bi...> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:01:24 +1100, Matt Lewis
> <mat...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> There are still a few open bugs, and a few marked as possibly fixed
>> that need confirmation.  Several of these are windows specific.  Can
>> some folks on windows take a look and close them out?
>
> I'm getting a lot of redefinition errors from watcom of pcre identifiers.

I get similar issues sometimes when updating and not cleaning.
Ideally, dependencies would take care of that, but it doesn't always
seem to happen.

>
>> There are two issues that I think we really need to get figured out:
>>
>> 600: Debugger color clash
>
> This is not a problem in Windows.

Yes, I have a feeling it may be another go around with the different
terminals using different colors.

> It seems that conversion of floating point numbers has been changed.
>
> This used to work fine ...
>
>  constant x = 2.8844991406148167646432766215602
>
> but now I have to shorten it to ...
>
>  constant x = 2.8844991406148167646432
>
>
> Is this a bug?

Yes, I would think so.  The extra precision should simply be ignored.
Also, the 64-bit version will probably eventually support more
precision, so we'd need to support it in that case, too.


> Also, it used to be that if a unittest case failed, eutest would just
> report it and go on to the next test. Now it seems that when a test fails,
> eutest skips the rest of the tests in the file. Is this actually the case
> now? If so, I feel that it is a mistake because it slows down the testing
> process.

I haven't noticed this.

-- 
Matt Lewis