On 20 Jun 2015 11:35, "Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d" < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On 06/20/2015 09:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote: > > > > Which C runtime are you using? The math functions in C runtimes are > > often inadequate. > > So we now call the host's C library to perform constant folding/CTFE of exp? > This is a point for Iain's proposal to use a high precision floating > point implementation in the compiler to avoid machine/platform differences.
I thought dmd used the C library implementations for all intrinsics via CTFE, not just exp? In any case, isn't the problem you are seeing related to the conversion of string to float? Which again dmd is at the mercy of the C library implementation to handle correctly.
