Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 05:18:33 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hackers@freebsd.org, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Subject: Re: Any experience on tcl7.4/tk4.0 ? Message-ID: <199506231918.FAA21290@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I have tried to build "GroupKit" with tcl 7.4 and tk4.0b4, but with not >much success. tcl 7.4 as distributed fails some tests with a FP >exception. The documentation suggests a fix which has to do with the >rounding mode and disable the fpmask. With this fix tcl completes the >tests, but then tk fails several tests (here again there appear to be >errors in the FP calculations: a lot of results are off by 1 WRT the >expected values). The FreeBSD port of tcl 7.3 has diffs for the fpmask and the rounding mode. These diffs apparently still apply (FreeBSD certainly hasn't changed). It also has diffs for configuring strtod(). I'm not sure exactly what these do. I don't know of any bugs in the FreeBSD strtod(). Use of a toy portable strtod() could easily cause small FP errors. Bruce
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