Floating point problems on windows-latest (windows-2025)
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Description
See #31642 for discussion along with a Claude analysis, #31751 may also be related. It was suggested in today's community meeting that we may need some additional flags.
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Research direction
Start by reading the discussion in #31642 and the related context in #31751, including the referenced Claude analysis. Reproduce the floating-point problem on windows-latest (windows-2025), then determine which additional flags are relevant and validate the result against the reported behavior. Done means the Windows issue is reproducible, understood, and fixed or documented with verification.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- build-system, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100