Re: bug 10491 was Re: More astonishing progress in japi scores

[Archie Cobbs]

Sven de Marothy wrote:
> > If the strtod in glibc is threadsafe *and* accurate, then we should
> > probably use it, at least as a default.
> 
> Dalibor Topic said on IRC that it has some problems on Irix. So it might
> not be a good idea. So perhaps adding a special case would be best, or
> you could solve it upstream by adding support for NaN and infinity to
> newlib.

Not everybody uses Linux, so what glibc does is not entirely relevant..

I'd prefer a 100% Java implementation, but that's probably a lot of work.

-Archie

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