[m-rev.] write_float_special.exp4

[Paul Bone]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:53:56AM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
>
> Hi Zoltan,
>
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:
>
>> On my laptop, the output of the hardcoded/write_float_special test has long been:
>>
>> Inf: inf
>> -Inf: -inf
>> NaN: -nan
>>
>> The expected output does not have the - sign in front of the nan.
>>
>> I don't particularly care about the exact details of how we format non-number
>> numbers, but having a test case always failing is annoying.
>>
>> I think either the MR_is_nan test should be moved earlier in MR_sprintf_float,
>> to before the - is printed, or the output above should be added as tests/
>> hardcoded/write_float_special.exp4, with corresponding .exp[56] for infinity/
>> Infinity. What do others think?
>
> The former: the profileration of expected outputs for the above (and
> related) test case(s) is already annoying.
>

I second this.

It also has the potential to reduce problems when reading in Mercury terms
with io.read, parsers won't need to understand -nan.  (Unless there's some
other reason why they should.) 


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Paul Bone