> Ad 1) Is HP-PA floating point IEEE conformant? Should be. Will I need '-mieee' on Alpha? > Do we need floating point tests? I don't think that could hurt. > Ad 2) Should we switch to something else like Perl 5.6 or Python 2.1 for > the tests? I'd bet the shells have made up for half of the worries > we've had with the tests. Seems like an unnecessary requirement to me.