Message 97552 - Python tracker

Message97552

Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	eric.smith, mark.dickinson, skrah, tim.peters
Date	2010-01-10.21:53:42
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Message-id	<1263160424.35.0.150803455187.issue7632@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Showing once again that a proof of FP code correctness is about as > compelling as a proof of God's ontological status ;-) Clearly we need a 1000-page Isabelle/HOL-style machine-checked formal proof, rather than a ten-page TeX proof. Any takers? All of the above bugs seem to have been introduced with the new 'bigcomp' code that arrived on March 16, 2009, just a couple of weeks before I downloaded the version that got adapted for Python; in retrospect, I probably should have used the NO_STRTOD_BIGCOMP #define to bypass the new code.

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> Showing once again that a proof of FP code correctness is about as
> compelling as a proof of God's ontological status ;-)

Clearly we need a 1000-page Isabelle/HOL-style machine-checked formal proof, rather than a ten-page TeX proof.  Any takers?

All of the above bugs seem to have been introduced with the new 'bigcomp' code that arrived on March 16, 2009, just a couple of weeks before I downloaded the version that got adapted for Python;  in retrospect, I probably should have used the NO_STRTOD_BIGCOMP #define to bypass the new code.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-01-10 21:53:44	mark.dickinson	set	recipients: + mark.dickinson, tim.peters, eric.smith, skrah
2010-01-10 21:53:44	mark.dickinson	set	messageid: <1263160424.35.0.150803455187.issue7632@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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