[Help-smalltalk] Re: [bug] Build failure on alpha

[Paolo Bonzini]

Issue status update for 
http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project/issue/154
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http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project/comments/add/154

Project:      GNU Smalltalk
Version:      <none>
Component:    Testsuite
Category:     bug reports
Priority:     normal
Assigned to:  Unassigned
Reported by:  tgg
Updated by:   bonzinip
Status:       active

The first part of the failure is the same for ia64, so I'll prepare a
patch to enable -mieee on alpha.  This however is not enough, can you
try this?

      | p |
      p := 1 bitShift: FloatE precision - 1.
      p printNl.
      "Should be p+1"
      (FloatE coerce: p+0+(3/4)) asExactFraction printNl.
      (FloatE coerce: p+1+(1/4)) asExactFraction printNl.

I'll try the same on a machine without GMP.  If it fails there, I'll
close this as a dup of the ia64 build failure.