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Re: strtod [was: M4 1.4.14 on AIX 7.1BETA]


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: strtod [was: M4 1.4.14 on AIX 7.1BETA]
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:38:39 -0600
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On 07/29/2010 08:33 AM, Rainer Tammer wrote:
>>     ASSERT (result == 10.0);
>>
>> Weird - I've never seen that line fail before.  If you have a debugger,
>> can you put a breakpoint on that line and print the actual value of
>> result? 
> I can do that.
> 
> main(), line 234 in "test-strtod.c"
> 
> (dbx) print result
> 10.000000000000002

Yep - rounding inaccuracies have crept in, even for something as simple
as 1 * pow(10,1).  Which gives me hope that latest gnulib will be
immune, since we ditched pow().  But it also makes me wonder who's at
fault for introducing a rounding error on such a seemingly simple
operation - hardware, compiler, or former gnulib algorithm?

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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