Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 1/22/11 12:35 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
Phobos1 on 10.10 is dying in its unit tests because Ubuntu changed how
gcc's strtof() works. Erratic floating point is typical of C runtime
library implementations (the transcendentals are often sloppily done),
which is why more and more Phobos uses its own implementations that Don
has put together.
I think we must change to our own routines anyway. One strategic
advantage of native implementations of strtof (and the converse sprintf
etc.) is that we can CTFE them, which opens the door to interesting
applications.
We can also make our own conversion routines consistent, pure, thread safe and
locale-independent.
