> I don't agree with this; with the patch we now output 10 significant > digits, whereas 9 is sufficient for a binary->ascii->binary roundtrip. > So please retain the "reduce d by one when E editing is used" thing > for list format and G0. This is just a side effect of using 1PGw.d > format for list format and G0 in order to avoid duplicating code, but > we don't need to follow this particular craziness that is due to how > the scale factor is specified in the standard.
I hadn't noticed this, but I agree with Janne. It should be easy to implement: After the switch between F and E editing, we just need to shift the decimal point and decrement the exponent. No new rounding is required, because we keep the number of significant digits.
