------- Comment #3 from fxcoudert at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-04-15 14:02
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I agree with you for output: we currently do COMPATIBLE rounding and it
shouldn't be too hard to change. The only case where we might not have control
is for the last significant digit output by snprintf(), where we might rely
somehow on the system library's implementation.
For input, however, I think we don't really have control on what we do (we rely
on the system strtod) and it is probably not that easy to change. I'll try to
think about it some more.
PS: for input, I have come to the conclusion that NEAREST and COMPATIBLE are
really the same, as it is not possible for a decimal value to be exactly
halfway between two machine-representable floating point values. Can someone
confirm/infirm this?
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