[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1557

[Brad Roberts]

On 5/25/2010 10:59 PM, dsource.org wrote:
> phobos commit, revision 1557
> 
> 
> user: rsinfu
> 
> msg:
> We should not expect exact precision of strtold().
> The precition may vary between platforms or even different versions of libc.
> 
> Tested on FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux with dmd r501.
> 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/1557

I disagree with this 'fix'.  D has taken a pretty strong stance on numerical
accuracy so far.  That some platform libc's have bugs means we shouldn't use
those parts of those libc's and instead provide an implementation that works
correctly.