floating point conversion

[Martin Krejcirik via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 1.6.2014 18:02, Famous wrote:
> This is different. The decimal 1.234 cannot be exacly represented as
> radix-2 floating-point number. In your example above, a and b are not
> equal. They are both approximations to 1.234 but the value of b is

Still feels iffy to me. If you add:

   printf("%.70f\n%.70f\n", a, cast(float) b);

you can see that gcc in C and gdc in D both convert value of b to float
resulting in equality. Dmd doesn't, it just ignore the cast.

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mk