[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1557

[Shin Fujishiro]

Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
> 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.

That makes a lot of sense. I see; strict unittests are requirements
for D, and those unittests should fail on these platforms.

I'll revert the change later. (dsource.org is down now)


Shin