[Chicken-users] [PATCH] Make library tests compare numbers within epsilon [Was Re: Is chicken supported on 32 bit Linux?]

[John Long]

> This patch should fix it, but it does in a roundabout way: converting the
> number to a string causes it to lose precision because of the default
> value of (flonum-print-precision).  It's more explicit to check whether
> the two values lie within an epsilon of eachother, like the test egg
> does. 
>
> Could you try whether "make check" on a -O3-compiled CHICKEN succeeds with
> the attached patch? 
>
> Cheers,
> Peter

Thanks Peter and Sven, I'll get back to you tomorrow on this.

/jl

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