From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Rounding off by one
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:11:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100419161143.GA1377@shodan.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100419154317.GA726@polynum.com>
* tlaronde@polynum.com (tlaronde@polynum.com) wrote:
> While verifying that I have the same result under Plan9 than under some
> Unix (NetBSD), it happens that METAFONT compiles 110 of the 125 fontes,
> but hence fails on some (and it should not) with something that smells
> like a round off by one error on negative integer division. There is no
> problem with TeX, but TeX doesn't do the same things.
This might not be related to your problem, but during the recent
discussion of Plan 9's future /sys/src/cmd/cc/c99 was mentioned.
Reference 25 (in section "Not done") at least seems to be a good
candidate for a test case between Plan 9 and NetBSD compilers.
Good luck,
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-19 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-19 15:43 tlaronde
2010-04-19 16:11 ` Martin Neubauer [this message]
2010-04-19 18:15 ` tlaronde
2010-04-19 18:26 ` tlaronde
2010-04-19 18:55 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-04-19 19:03 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-19 19:14 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-04-19 19:28 ` tlaronde
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