Brad Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/25/2010 10:59 PM, dsource.org wrote: > > phobos commit, revision 1557 > > > > > > user: rsinfu > > > > msg: > > We should not expect exact precision of strtold(). > > The precition may vary between platforms or even different versions of libc. > > > > Tested on FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux with dmd r501. > > > > http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/1557 > > I disagree with this 'fix'. D has taken a pretty strong stance on numerical > accuracy so far. That some platform libc's have bugs means we shouldn't use > those parts of those libc's and instead provide an implementation that works > correctly.
That makes a lot of sense. I see; strict unittests are requirements for D, and those unittests should fail on these platforms. I'll revert the change later. (dsource.org is down now) Shin _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
