On 25 March 2013 18:31, Johannes Pfau <nos...@example.com> wrote: > I think this is a known issue: > DMD expects real.stringof to return a string in the %g format. However > the GCC function used for formatting real numbers always returns the %e > format. > > There is a failing test for this in the test suite. (runnable/test42.d > (test49)). Would it be OK to disable this test if a file a bug > report on our bugtracker and on the gcc bugtracker? This would > allow running the other tests in that file. >
GCC backend always appends the exponent, so I would just amend it to do: assert((25.5).stringof ~ (3.01).stringof == "2.55e+13.01e+0"); Regards -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';