On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 12:15:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 6/22/12 7:41 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
I think the main thing that's still done in C is the floating
point
formatting.
Would be great if a contributor could translate FP parsing and
formatting code into D. Then we can use it in CTFE. I need it
badly for some function tabulation code.
Same here; I need it for a side-feature in Thrift (exporting IDL
for existing types at a compile time), where I'm currently just
using a horrible hack which rounds slightly wrong.
There a quite a few papers about efficient floating point
formatting out there, and it should not be hard to convert one of
the described algorithms into actual code. I originally planned
to do it myself last summer, but never found the time to…
David
