Aaaaarrrggghh!

Eric S. Raymond esr at snark.thyrsus.com
Mon Dec 28 20:37:16 UTC 2015


I just found out that the reason (or, at any rate, *a* reason) I've
been unable to get replay to work reliably over the last two weeks is
that ulfptoa() is broken.

4212665562.2360215127 dumps as 4212665562.5495304072
4212665562.2114585943 dumps as 4212665562.4923404062
4212665562.739245376 dumps as 4212665562.1721189767
1444359386.1798776096 dumps as 1444359386.4188101962
3660323067.1125955647 dumps as 3660323067.2621569780

After discovering this, I checked and found that the unit tests don't
check ulfptoa() with a nonzero fractional part.

This has been an official aaaaaarrrrgggh.  That is all.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're
putting a money test on getting a gun.  It's racism in its worst form.
        -- Roy Innis, president of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 1988


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