[Issue 366] Adding trailing zeros to a real literal makes it smaller!

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Tue Sep 26 02:30:10 PDT 2006


Don Clugston wrote:
> It's the first step (decimal rounding) that appears to be missing.
> I don't know how much of a change this is from IEEE 754. Without 
> monotonicity, you need to be very careful about increasing the precision 
> of constants.

Might as well leave it as a bug, then, although the issue is with 
strtold which the D lexer relies on.



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