From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:11:43 +0200 From: Martin Neubauer To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20100419161143.GA1377@shodan.homeunix.net> References: <20100419154317.GA726@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100419154317.GA726@polynum.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] Rounding off by one Topicbox-Message-UUID: 091f4efa-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * 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