Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (rc3) now available
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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (rc3) now available
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:11:50 -0200
> You are right, looks like pow() does strange things with a base of zero:
>
> [...]
> 0 -3 -inf inf
> /usr/local/bin/lua: math.lua:155: assertion failed!
In fact, systems have conflicts about it:
The POSIX documentation says this:
For y an odd integer < 0, if x is ±0, a pole error shall occur and
±HUGE_VAL, ±HUGE_VALF, and ±HUGE_VALL shall be returned for pow(),
powf(), and powl(), respectively.
So, +0^-3 should be +inf. But the ISO documentation does not include
these details. It only says that "A domain error may occur if x is zero
and y is less than or equal to zero.". So, it seems more honest to exclude
those cases for the tests.
-- Roberto