GNU bug report logs - #78985
sort-float failure on ppc64, LDBL_MIN fraction part too long for test command to parse

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Message #25 received at 78985 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 78985 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "C. Neidahl" <opna2608 <at> protonmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#78985: sort-float failure on ppc64, LDBL_MIN fraction part
 too long for test command to parse
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:01:08 -0700

On 2025-07-11 15:25, Collin Funk wrote:
> This test still fails on cfarm110 for me, logs attached.

I guess that's a different issue, due to the problem that Gnulib defines 
LDBL_MAX to be a value greater than what one can compute from source code.

I guess a fix on that platform would be to shrink LDBL_MAX by a factor 
of 2, and similarly for LDBL_NORM_MAX. That is, go back to the GCC way 
of doing things.

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