Re: [PATCH: perl@8342] lib/bigfloat.t FAILED at test 351

Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10101121623130.478096-100000@aspara.forte.com>

Add a BEGIN guard for sloppy floating point division.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8428

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Math/BigInt.pm b/lib/Math/BigInt.pm
index 808e5522b9..066577d4cc 100644
--- a/lib/Math/BigInt.pm
+++ b/lib/Math/BigInt.pm
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ sub import {
 
 $zero = 0;
 
+# overcome a floating point problem on certain osnames (posix-bc, os390)
+BEGIN {
+    my $x = 100000.0;
+    my $use_mult = int($x*1e-5)*1e5 == $x ? 1 : 0;
+}
 
 # normalize string form of number.   Strip leading zeros.  Strip any
 #   white space and add a sign, if missing.
@@ -228,8 +233,14 @@ sub mul { #(*int_num_array, *int_num_array) return int_num_array
       ($car, $cty) = (0, $[);
       for $y (@y) {
 	$prod = $x * $y + ($prod[$cty] || 0) + $car;
+        if ($use_mult) {
 	$prod[$cty++] =
 	  $prod - ($car = int($prod * 1e-5)) * 1e5;
+        }
+        else {
+	$prod[$cty++] =
+	  $prod - ($car = int($prod / 1e5)) * 1e5;
+        }
       }
       $prod[$cty] += $car if $car;
       $x = shift @prod;
@@ -254,12 +265,22 @@ sub bdiv { #(dividend: num_str, divisor: num_str) return num_str
     if (($dd = int(1e5/($y[$#y]+1))) != 1) {
 	for $x (@x) {
 	    $x = $x * $dd + $car;
+            if ($use_mult) {
 	    $x -= ($car = int($x * 1e-5)) * 1e5;
+            }
+            else {
+	    $x -= ($car = int($x / 1e5)) * 1e5;
+            }
 	}
 	push(@x, $car); $car = 0;
 	for $y (@y) {
 	    $y = $y * $dd + $car;
+            if ($use_mult) {
 	    $y -= ($car = int($y * 1e-5)) * 1e5;
+            }
+            else {
+	    $y -= ($car = int($y / 1e5)) * 1e5;
+            }
 	}
     }
     else {
@@ -276,7 +297,12 @@ sub bdiv { #(dividend: num_str, divisor: num_str) return num_str
 	    ($car, $bar) = (0,0);
 	    for ($y = $[, $x = $#x-$#y+$[-1; $y <= $#y; ++$y,++$x) {
 		$prd = $q * $y[$y] + $car;
+                if ($use_mult) {
 		$prd -= ($car = int($prd * 1e-5)) * 1e5;
+                }
+                else {
+		$prd -= ($car = int($prd / 1e5)) * 1e5;
+                }
 		$x[$x] += 1e5 if ($bar = (($x[$x] -= $prd + $bar) < 0));
 	    }
 	    if ($x[$#x] < $car + $bar) {