Hi,

I'm not exactly sure what I mean by "recent".
It certainly refers to current bleadperl, but these are test failures I've been ignoring for so long that I don't really know when they first appeared.

OTOH, I know exactly what I mean by "undecipherable".
I mean that I have no idea what these failures actually are.

Firstly, the affected perls are -Duselongdouble builds on a powerpc64 box running Debian Wheezy.
Note: $Config{longdblkind} is 6 ... which means that the kind of long double is doubledouble.
The first 2 failures are reported as: 
not ok 30410 - couldn't compile /\p{Numeric_Value:3.12e-03}/; line 699
+58: Can't find Unicode property definition "Numeric_Value:3.12e-03" i
+n regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\p{Numeric_Value:3.12e-03} <-- HERE 
+/ at (eval 26922) line 2.

not ok 30411 - couldn't compile /\p{^Numeric_Value:3.12e-03}/; line 69
+959: Can't find Unicode property definition "Numeric_Value:3.12e-03" 
+in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\p{^Numeric_Value:3.12e-03} <-- HER
+E / at (eval 26923) line 2.

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The errors recur time and time again - AFAICS, it's always in relation to a value of 3.12e-03 or 3.125e-03 (sometimes reported as 0.00312 and 0.003125).

I believe that the two failures I've quoted come from lines 69958 and 69959 of lib/unicore/TestProp.pl: 
Expect(1, 73684, '\p{Numeric_Value:3.13e-03}', "");
Expect(0, 73684, '\p{^Numeric_Value:3.13e-03}', "");

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but that's about all I know - though I do notice that 3.12e-03 and 3.13e-03 are not the same value.
Any hints on what might be going on ?

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Undecipherable t/re/uniprops02.t failures on recent builds of perl. by syphilis

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