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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:06:00AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
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>
> Anders Logg wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:40:05AM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Why is the buildbot failing for FFC on winxp-mingw32? Is this
> >>> something that could be fixed?
> >> The problem is that floats are represented slightly differently
> >> because of the underlying C library. On Windows, float(1e-8) is 1e-008
> >> while it is 1e-08 on Ubuntu.
> >
> > I don't understand why this should matter. Where does this problem show up?
> >
>
> When performing a diff on the generated and reference files.

You mean the regression test fail just because floats are formatted
differently on the two platforms?

That should be easy to fix since all floats are formatted through a
common function in FFC. We could fix that function to produce the same
results.

--
Anders


> Garth
>
> >> BTW: The buildbot failed the FFC checks last night. No report was sent
> >> to the list because I have experimented with bug reports directly to
> >> launchpad. Obviously it did not work (problems with GPG signing of the
> >> mail).
> >
> > ok.
> >
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