Archie Cobbs wrote:
Sven de Marothy wrote:
If the strtod in glibc is threadsafe *and* accurate, then we should probably use it, at least as a default.
Dalibor Topic said on IRC that it has some problems on Irix. So it might not be a good idea. So perhaps adding a special case would be best, or you could solve it upstream by adding support for NaN and infinity to newlib.
Not everybody uses Linux, so what glibc does is not entirely relevant..
glibc is the *GNU* C library, so it's obviously not Linux-specific. Classpath is the *GNU* Java library, so it isn't unreasonable to optimize for the glibc case. If on non-glibc platforms floating-point conversion isn't quite as exact as the spec requires, fixing that is not a priority. Of course if somebody wants to work on a more portable solution, that is great, as lang as it doesn't penalize the glibc case. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bothner.com/
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