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

[Per Bothner]

Archie Cobbs wrote:

> 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..

glibc is the *GNU* C library, so it's obviously not Linux-specific.
Classpath is the *GNU* Java library, so it isn't unreasonable to
optimize for the glibc case.  If on non-glibc platforms floating-point
conversion isn't quite as exact as the spec requires, fixing that is
not a priority.  Of course if somebody wants to work on a more portable
solution, that is great, as lang as it doesn't penalize the glibc case.
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