Re: m4-1.4.11 test-strtod.c fails with 5 asserts

[BuraphaLinux Server]

On 4/17/08, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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> According to Eric Blake on 4/16/2008 2:15 PM:
> | | glibc 2.7
> | | FAIL: test-strtod
> | |
> | | All other tests pass.
> |
> | All five of these deal with a bug in parsing "nan()", which is present in
> | older glibc (but if I understand the glibc bug reports correctly, is fixed
> | in CVS).  Since m4-1.4.11 was released, strtod.m4 has already been beefed
> | up to catch other bugs, but I'm not sure if this particular bug is
> | filtered in strtod.m4 yet.
>
> I'm committing this to gnulib.  Then I regenerated my m4 snapshot; would
> you please try it and see if it resolves the failure?
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.10b.27-14840.tar.gz
> http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.10b.27-14840.tar.gz.asc
> http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.10b.27-14840.tar.bz2
> http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.10b.27-14840.tar.bz2.asc
>
> By the way, would you like to be attributed in the ChangeLog by something
> other than BuraphaLinux or JGH?
>
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> Eric Blake             address@hidden

Hello,

    http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.10b.27-14840.tar.bz2
worked and all tests passed.  However, it seems to be some 1.4.10
version and my bug was against 1.4.11.  So I took the patch at the end
of your email and applied it by hand to 1.4.11 and tested that also.
That worked and had no test failures too.  I attached the final patch
I used with m4-1.4.11.tar.bz2 to this email.    The context was
different on hunk 1.

    Thank you for the very fast fix!  Please use my full name for
attribution: "John Gatewood Ham".  I have this strange email account
because I am a distribution maintainer and this is the account I use
for that work.

Thank you,

JGH

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