Decimal string to floating point conversion with correct half-to-even rounding

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On Sunday, 5 July 2020 at 08:15:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> It doesn't work quite like that. The D Language Foundation 
> controls it. Andrei, Atila, and myself control it only as far 
> as we DLF empowers us to, which can change. Official parts of 
> the DMD distribution have to be controlled by the DLF. It's 
> unworkable otherwise.

If I remember correctly some time ago DMD hasn't been even Boost 
licensed. Also, DMD uses C libraries at least. I can't see why 
adding an open-source Boost licensed dependency is unworkable 
then.