[m-rev.] for review: disable tests/hard_coded/float_consistency.m

[Fergus Henderson]

On 13-Jun-2003, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Estimated hours taken: 0.25
> Branches: main, release
> 
> library/float.m:
> 	Document that goals such as `1.0/9.0 = id(1.0)/9.0' may
> 	fail due to floats in registers having extra precision
> 	on some architectures (e.g. x86).
> 
> tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
> 	Disable the float_consistency test. We don't pass it 
> 	on x86 with some C compilers.

That looks fine to me, at least as an interim solution.

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