Sven de Marothy writes: > On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 18:01, Per Bothner wrote: > > That other issue is that system strtod may not be accurate. > > Note that parseDouble is required to return the *closest* > > double. This is a difficult requirement to meet, and cannot be done > > by simple (i.e. traditional) implementations. > > Which is also a good argument against re-implementing it, unless we have > to. Apparently the strtod.c file in gcj/classpath is not actually from > fdlibm but rather from newlib.
That's right, it is. I forgot. The newlib implementation might be easy to translate into Java, but it has a rather awkward licence. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
