[erlang-bugs] Pattern matching of floats does not work in the shell

[Robert Virding]

Good to get an explanation of why it works when it does and otherwise not. No I don't use --enable-native-libs, which in this case is good.

Robert

----- Original Message -----
> Le 3 sept. 2011 à 12:40, Robert Virding a écrit :
> 
> > You sure you are getting all the right standard libraries?
> > Otherwise it could be architecture related. But you mentioned that
> > it worked compiled which would mean that it is NOT architecture
> > related. Weird.
> 
> After further analysis, the bug is in HiPE and occurs in
> eval_bits.erl (hence the issue in the shell).
> It can be reproduced with the following function:
> 
> bin_to_float(B,S) ->
>     <<F:S/float>> = B,
>     F.
> 
> I only tried the following simpler case, which works (except in the
> shell, where it is interpreted to eval_bits:get_float/3 which is
> like bin_to_float/2 above):
> 
> bin_to_float(B) ->
>     <<F:64/float>> = B,
>     F.
> 
> bin_to_float/1 always work. bin_to_float/2 works when the module is
> compiled without native, but fails when it is compiled +native.
> 
> The reason why you could not reproduce the bug is that all my
> installations are configured with --enable-native-libs, and
> therefore, module eval_bits is compiled +native. You probably did
> not pass --enable-native-libs on your Mac.
> 
> The bug is a typo in lib/hipe/icode/hipe_beam_to_icode.erl. I'm
> submitting a patch.
> 
> Paul
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