Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (rc7) now available

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 12/9/2011 7:45 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > Ah, there're few more troubles with tdm64-gcc4.5.1:
> >
> > coroutine.lua
> > a = 625--line 189
> >
> > math.lua
> > a^b == 08 is false at line 8
> > also 56, 58, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 117 and so on...
> >
> > I think there's something very wrong with this compiler...

An update, the tdm-gcc4.6.x series should work fine. From the 
mingw64-runtime-svn4483-src sources, the pow() implementation does 
have a check for integer exponents and handles them properly. The 
relevant ChangeLog entry is

2011-03-15  Kai Tietz  <ktietz70@googlemail.com>

	* math/exp.def.h: Use integer/fraction separation for improving
	calculation precision.
	* math/pow.def.h: Use log2l/exp2l and integer/fraction separation
	for improving calculation precission.

plus a following rounding fix on 2011-03-26. tdm64-gcc4.5.2 seems 
to have a release date of 2011-03-27, so I reckon we should move 
to 4.6.1...

I'm not using tdm64-gcc; it would be nice to confirm that the 
issue is fixed in the 4.6.1 series.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia