Re: P1788 input/output
On 2013-06-28 14:05:32 -0400, Michel Hack wrote:
> Unfortunately few environments comply with the 754-2008 requirement that
> there be numeric-to-string conversions that honour a current rounding mode.
> Note that the ISO/IEC 9899:201x draft (N1539) for C does require that the
> current rounding mode be honoured: Clause F.5, Binary-decimal conversion.
This was already the case in C99, but implementations can be buggy
in practice. This was recently fixed in the GNU libc:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5044
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