On Dec 19 08:03, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 12/19/2012 2:30 AM, KHMan wrote:
> >On 12/19/2012 8:54 AM, Cary R. wrote:
> >>The following code demonstrates a subtle bug in the Cygwin version of
> >>strtod(). The value it generates is slightly different than the value
> >>when using the math header files. This used to work correctly some
> >>time ago (months). I just took the time to track the problem down in
> >>our regression suite.
> >>
> >>#include<math.h>
> >>#include<stdio.h>
> >>#include<stdlib.h>
> >>
> >>int main()
> >>{
> >> double value = M_LN10;
> >>
> >> printf("generate const. - value: %0.15f.\n", value);
> >> printf("expected const. - value: 2.302585092994046.\n");
> >>
> >> printf("\n");
> >> value = strtod("2.30258509299404568402", 0);
> >>
> >> /* Note: the last digit is incorrect. */
> >> printf("generate strtod - value: %0.15f.\n", value);
> >> printf("expected strtod - value: 2.302585092994046.\n");
> >>
> >> return 0;
> >>}
> >
> >Yep, looks like the significand misses its mark by 1.
> >
>
> strtod is from newlib.
> the last change in the code is one year and half ago
>
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/newlib/libc/stdlib/strtod.c.diff?r1=1.17&r2=1.18&cvsroot=src
...and this change also introduced the problem. I'll look into it.
Thanks,
Corinna
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