Re: !! Take note !! CVS frozen !! RE: [Tcllib-devel] Tcllib

[Arjen M. <arj...@wl...>]

"Larry W. Virden" wrote:
> 
> Here's the warnings that were mentioned:
> 

> 
> ==== counter-avg counter::count FAILED
> ==== Contents of test case:
> 
>     counter::init avg
>     counter::count avg 2.2
>     counter::count avg 3.3
>     counter::count avg 9.8
>     counter::get avg -avg
> 
> ---- Result was:
> 5.1000000000000005
> ---- Result should have been (exact matching):
> 5.1
> ==== counter-avg FAILED
> 
> and a similar failure in counter-hist.
> 

> modules/math/fuzzy.test
> math::fuzzy 0.2
> 
> ==== math-fuzzy-ManyCompares-1.1 Compare fails due to missing braces FAILED
> :
> Removed specific test case to save space here - this isn't a bug
> report, just an observation.
> :
> 
> ---- Result was:
> 1
> ---- Result should have been (exact matching):
> 0
> ==== math-fuzzy-ManyCompares-1.1 FAILED
> 

> 
> ==== units-10.1 leading zero is not octal FAILED
> ==== Contents of test case:
> 
>     ::units::convert 09mm meter
> 
> ---- Result was:
> 0.009000000000000001
> ---- Result should have been (exact matching):
> 0.009
> ==== units-10.1 FAILED
> 

I suspect that these failures are due to the changed handling
of numerical values in Tcl 8.5. Doesn't it use tcl_precision = 17 
by default?

Regards,

Arjen