PING: Re: [cp-patches] RFC: strtod patch from early 2004

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 16:41 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> I've recently moved to a 64-bit architecture (x86_64) and yesterday I
> encountered some problems building the generics branch with ecj on kaffe
> and Debian GNU/Linux.  Namely, the MIN_DOUBLE value is not recognised as
> valid.  Using parseDouble on this value shows that the fdlibm
> implementation of strtod reports an underflow and 0 is returned.
> 
> This lead to me finding the following post:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2004-01/msg00057.html
> 
> Applying this patch solves the problem and the right value is returned.
> Does anyone know what the state of this patch is, and why it wasn't
> applied?  It does solve the problem in this case, but I don't know how
> it fares in general.  Any comments, and testing on some other platforms
> would be much appreciated.
> 
> FWIW, the conversion also works with the platform strtod, so this is
> also an option (although again I don't know how general this is, and it
> has been disabled for cases where KISSME_LINUX_USER is not defined).
> 
> Thanks,
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Is there any update on this?
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