[phobos] fuzzy C floating point

[Walter Bright]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> On 1/21/2011 10:21 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
>   
>> On 1/21/2011 8:38 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>     
>>> I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10. So far, it seems to work, but the std.conv unit
>>> tests for Phobos1 are failing. Seems that strtof() doesn't work the same. Argh.
>>>       
>> My linux 64 bit box is running 10.10.. not that helps a lot as I do primarily 64
>> bit development.  I rarely run 32 bit builds though.  I'll do a 32 bit test pass
>> over d1 and d2 on it right now.
>>     
>
> d1 32 bit's phobos tests does fail with:
>   Error: conversion 1.17549e-38 not representable as a float
>
> d2 32 bit's phobos tests are clean.
>
>   

Yup, just what I'm getting.