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.
I have something CTFEable starting from your dmc code, but never got around to handling all of the small details.
Andrei
