Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 20:16:32 -0700 From: David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: float values at the extreme... when did things change? Message-ID: <20030508031632.GA18461@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20030507231923.GS49916@perrin.int.nxad.com> References: <20030507175740.GM49916@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030508080005.D4073@gamplex.bde.org> <20030507230627.GQ49916@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030507231923.GS49916@perrin.int.nxad.com>
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On Wed, May 07, 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote: > Sorry for the follow up. gdtoa isn't GPL-ware, my bad. As Peter > pointed out, it's the initials of the author, not GNU. And that said, > it looks like gdtoa is here to stay given that it's just the updated > version of our older strtod() routines. I'll just use > __FreeBSD_version > 500112 as the method for detection. -sc I don't know why people keep assuming the 'g' stands for GNU. I don't think it stands for the name of the author, either. The original 'dtoa' routine provided IEEE 754 double conversions, whereas 'gdtoa' is a generic routine that operates on many different floating point formats. (The algorithms are basically the same, albeit less efficient.) Thus, the 'g' probably stands for ``generalized''.
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