CTFE formatting of floating point values

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:03:19 +0000
schrieb Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com>:

> 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

OK. I thought the .stringof format is somehow specified, but it seems
it's not so this is indeed not a bug.