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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:06:00AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > 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?

Yes.

Garth

> 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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