New testsuite failure in today's CVS



On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)

>  > Result:
>  > [[x = 2, y = 2], [x = .5202594388652008 %i - .1331240357358706,
>  > y = .07678378523787788 - 3.608003221870287 %i],
>  > [x = - .5202594388652008 %i - .1331240357358706,
>  > y = 3.608003221870287 %i + .07678378523787788],
>  > [x = - 1.733751846381093, y = - .1535675710019696]]
>  >
>  > This differed from the expected result:
>  > [[x = 2, y = 2], [x = .5202594388652008 %i - .1331240357358706,
>  > y = .07678378523787777 - 3.608003221870287 %i],
>  > [x = - .1331240357358706 - .5202594388652008 %i,
>  > y = .07678378523787777 + 3.608003221870287 %i],
>  > [x = - 1.733751846381093, y = - .1535675710019696]]

>  I can confirm this.  Seems to be a round off problem.

Yes, I've seen it too. But is it maybe a simplification artifact?
I've run into cases in which two expressions involving
subtraction and/or negative numbers might be displayed
the same, but internally they are different & so the test
suite comparison function complains.

Robert