3.0.1 release?

Michael Goffioul michael.goffioul at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 08:06:11 CDT 2008


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:01 PM, David Bateman
<David.Bateman at motorola.com> wrote:
>  I just looked at this issue a little bit and the failing part of the
>  code is
>
>   Bmax = bitmax;
>   A = bitshift(Bmax,-2);
>   bitxor(cast(A,'uint64'),cast(Bmax,'uint64'))
>
>  Bmax is '2^53 - 1' and A is '2^51 - 1" and so bitxor of the above should
>  be '2^52 + 2^51' and is under linux. Under windows this appears to
>  return '2^53 + 2^51' which is of course a bug.. The equivalent in C++
>  would be
>
>  0x000FFFFFFFFFFFFFUL^ x0003FFFFFFFFFFFFUL
>
>  so what does this return when compiled with MSVC in C++ mode? If its not
>  '2^52 + 2^51' its time to file a bug report against MSVC..

Could you provide some code that I can compile and run out-of-the-box?
I'm not sure I fully understand the problem...

Michael.


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