From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:18:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update the test statuses.
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Update the test statuses.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16633
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 7d216e4..51e24df 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -2873,20 +2873,24 @@ the 5.005 threading implementation. These are not new failures--Perl
  ../lib/autouse.t                                10    1  10.00%  4
  op/flip.t                                       15    1   6.67%  15
 
-These failures are unlikely to get fixed as the 5.005-style
-threads are considered fundamentally broken.
+These failures are unlikely to get fixed as the 5.005-style threads
+are considered fundamentally broken.  (Basically what happens is that
+competing threads can corrupt shared global state.)
 
 =head2 UNICOS
 
  Failed Test                 Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ../ext/Socket/socketpair.t    1   256    45    1   2.22%  12
  ../lib/Math/Trig.t                       26    1   3.85%  25
  ../lib/warnings.t                       460    1   0.22%  425
- io/fs.t                                  36    1   2.78%  31
  op/numconvert.t                        1440   13   0.90%  208 509-510
  657-658 665-666 829-830 989-990 1149-1150
 
+The Trig and numconvert failures are caused by the slighly differing
+(from IEEE) floating point implementation of UNICOS.  The warnings
+failure is also related: the test assumes a certain floating point
+output format, this assumption fails in UNICOS.
+
 =head2 UNICOS/mk
 
 =over 4
@@ -2967,6 +2971,13 @@ tests have been added.
  uni/fold.t                                 780    6   0.77%  61 169 196 661
                                                               710-711
 
+The dumper.t and downgrade.t are problems in the tests, the io_unix
+and sprintf are problems in the USS (UDP sockets and printf formats).
+The pat, tr, and fold are genuine Perl problems caused by EBCDIC (and
+in the pat and fold cases, combining that with Unicode).  The Constant
+and Embed are probably problems in the tests (since they test Perl's
+ability to build extensions, and that seems to be working reasonably well.)
+
 =head2 Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken
 
     local %tied_array;