[kaffe] Re: The problem of "Double.c and buggy strtod" is settled

[Dalibor Topic]

hi Ito,

--- Ito Kazumitsu <ito.kazumitsu at hitachi-cable.co.jp> wrote:
> Hi Dalibor,
> 
> In message "Re: [kaffe] Re: The problem of "Double.c and buggy strtod" is
> settled"
>     on 03/06/05, Dalibor Topic <robilad at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > the netbsd strtod seems to need some includes that I don't have around, and
> the
> > netlib strtod wants me to specify way more about IEEE than I know ;) The
> one
> > from glibc is entangles in the glibc mess of headers, so I took another
> look at
> > the one from libiberty. I hope that the attached patch works, I've tried a
> > slightly adapted DoubleTest.c and it worked for me:
> 
> I used it on Linux 2.0.38, and the result seemed satisfactory....
> 
> But it was not because the new strtod worked but because I had
> chaned the system-wide /usr/lib/libc.so so that it used the
> strtod of NetBSD origin.
>  
> I restored the original /usr/lib/libc.so.  Then I got the
> bad result:
> 
> $ ./a.out 4.9406564584124654418e-324
> 4.9406564584124654418e-324 0               0.00000000000000000000e+00
> 
> Seeing the source,  I found that the libiberty-strtod.c used atof.
> The atof of Linux 2.0.38 uses its own __strtod_internal.
> 
> As long as __strtod_internal is used,  you cannot expect a good
> result.

Well, on to the next implementation ;) The atatched patch used strtod from
dietlibc so it would be nice if you could try it out.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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