From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: Evgeny Chukreev <sjah@land.ru>
Cc: Yamagata Yoriyuki <yoriyuki@mbg.ocn.ne.jp>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] string_of_float -> float_of_string locale dependency bug
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:04:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040614180420.C28810@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3brjmku93.fsf@jah.m12.ru>; from sjah@land.ru on Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:57:12PM +0700
> Another approach: write own strtod function which doesn't depend on
> the LC_NUMERIC locale.
Of course, having our own string <-> float conversions would work
around this issue and other issues as well, such as the inability of
the C library functions to print a float *exactly* (i.e. with just
enough decimals that it reads back to the very same float).
This is no small undertaking, however, and one has a feeling of
reinventing the wheel.
The ANSI C standard library is quite small to begin with, but the
addition of locales managed to render it even less useful...
- Xavier Leroy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-14 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-13 13:30 Evgeny Chukreev
2004-06-13 15:05 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2004-06-14 9:54 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-06-14 12:00 ` Evgeny Chukreev
2004-06-14 15:23 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2004-06-14 15:57 ` Evgeny Chukreev
2004-06-14 16:04 ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2004-06-14 16:27 ` Shawn Wagner
2004-06-14 15:58 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-06-14 21:51 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
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