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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-05-16 14:18:27 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-05-16 14:18:27 +0000
commit9972c7afa298c7672cee8abcd659c49c40cda99b (patch)
tree6687ba704e7db024914b2a676742b38d2dbb2762 /pod/perldelta.pod
parentcf5e2701f88a64b33cf0bb988b753623e2db9f65 (diff)
downloadperl-9972c7afa298c7672cee8abcd659c49c40cda99b.tar.gz
Update the test statuses.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16633
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
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+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -2873,20 +2873,24 @@ the 5.005 threading implementation. These are not new failures--Perl
../lib/autouse.t 10 1 10.00% 4
op/flip.t 15 1 6.67% 15
-These failures are unlikely to get fixed as the 5.005-style
-threads are considered fundamentally broken.
+These failures are unlikely to get fixed as the 5.005-style threads
+are considered fundamentally broken. (Basically what happens is that
+competing threads can corrupt shared global state.)
=head2 UNICOS
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ../ext/Socket/socketpair.t 1 256 45 1 2.22% 12
../lib/Math/Trig.t 26 1 3.85% 25
../lib/warnings.t 460 1 0.22% 425
- io/fs.t 36 1 2.78% 31
op/numconvert.t 1440 13 0.90% 208 509-510
657-658 665-666 829-830 989-990 1149-1150
+The Trig and numconvert failures are caused by the slighly differing
+(from IEEE) floating point implementation of UNICOS. The warnings
+failure is also related: the test assumes a certain floating point
+output format, this assumption fails in UNICOS.
+
=head2 UNICOS/mk
=over 4
@@ -2967,6 +2971,13 @@ tests have been added.
uni/fold.t 780 6 0.77% 61 169 196 661
710-711
+The dumper.t and downgrade.t are problems in the tests, the io_unix
+and sprintf are problems in the USS (UDP sockets and printf formats).
+The pat, tr, and fold are genuine Perl problems caused by EBCDIC (and
+in the pat and fold cases, combining that with Unicode). The Constant
+and Embed are probably problems in the tests (since they test Perl's
+ability to build extensions, and that seems to be working reasonably well.)
+
=head2 Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken
local %tied_array;