CTFE formatting of floating point values

[Iain Buclaw]

On 25 March 2013 18:31, Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> wrote:

> I think this is a known issue:
> DMD expects real.stringof to return a string in the %g format. However
> the GCC function used for formatting real numbers always returns the %e
> format.
>
> There is a failing test for this in the test suite. (runnable/test42.d
> (test49)). Would it be OK to disable this test if a file a bug
> report on our bugtracker and on the gcc bugtracker? This would
> allow running the other tests in that file.
>


GCC backend always appends the exponent, so I would just amend it to do:

assert((25.5).stringof ~ (3.01).stringof == "2.55e+13.01e+0");


Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
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