Re: bug 43053 - scientific notation

Antony Dovgal wrote: > In 5.2.1 string-to-double routines were changed to use BSD licensed > code (previous version was LGPLed). > What you see is just an unintentional side-effect of this update. Side-effect or not, it looks like the change was pretty major and some documentation should be added. There, really, are two questions: 1. What is the new behavior? 2. Is the new behavior correct? It looks like, from the bug report, two separate issues are being reported. The first involves large integers, which I can't reproduce on w32 builds for 5.2.2 and 5.2.5, and should have anything to do with string-to-double. The second involves floats to strings. I'd argue that the first case shouldn't be happening, and I don't see it, but nate's report appears to be consistent with this sort of thing. The float complaints, however, is almost certainly all bogus, and needs better documentation. -- Edward Z. Yang GnuPG: 0x869C48DA HTML Purifier <http://htmlpurifier.org> Anti-XSS Filter [[ 3FA8 E9A9 7385 B691 A6FC B3CB A933 BE7D 869C 48DA ]]