Printing shortest decimal form of floating point number with Mir

[9il]

On Tuesday, 22 December 2020 at 02:02:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/20/2020 9:42 PM, 9il wrote:
>> On Sunday, 20 December 2020 at 22:21:56 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> Can the improved parsing be added to D? (It would need to be 
>>> Boost licensed.)
>> If I am correct there is open PR that set DMD to use C’s 
>> primitives for literals parsing. So, for compiler itself we 
>> don’t need Mir.
>
> That's not correct for the targets that use Digital Mars C.

I thought that DMD is compiled with LDC for release builds, isn't 
it?

>> If you mean Phobos - one can use Mir instead.
>
> These functions in Phobos would make a great advertisement for 
> Mir.

How this possible? Having them in Mir is already a great 
advertisement for Mir and not having them in Phobos is an even 
more great advertisement for Mir.