Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 18:04:02 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.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: <xzpznlw85u5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20030508031632.GA18461@HAL9000.homeunix.com> (David Schultz's message of "Wed, 7 May 2003 20:16:32 -0700") References: <20030507175740.GM49916@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030508080005.D4073@gamplex.bde.org> <20030507230627.GQ49916@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030507231923.GS49916@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030508031632.GA18461@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> writes: > 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''. Both the original dtoa implementation and gdtoa were written by the same author, and he himself describes gdtoa a "generalization of dtoa.c to other IEEE and IEEE-like precisions [...]" DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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