[Issue 14718] New: float parsing depends on libc strtold precision

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14718

          Issue ID: 14718
           Summary: float parsing depends on libc strtold precision
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P3
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
          Reporter: code at dawg.eu

On a debian-7.4 system with an older glibc version the following floating point
literals cannot be parsed because the compiler uses the platform strtold to
convert the number.

0x1p-1024
0x1p-128f

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