Re: [xslt] floating point conversion

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 03:55:46PM -0400, Phil Shafer wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre writes:
> >I fear that's not sufficient. A few lines above, the multiplications
> >by 10 and additions introduce rounding errors for 17 digits and more.
> >An integer just below a rounding boundary will probably not be rounded
> >correctly.
> 
> [repeating my bugzilla comment]
> 
> We can just use strtod(), which handle both my fractional issue and
> your big number issue perfectly.  Unless there are objections, I'll
> redo the patch on Monday.

  and repeating my bugzilla comment here too, the problem is that
strtod is locale dependant and really 1/ can allow deviation 2/
switch locale from the library at each call , so fixing this is really
a matter of writing down equivalent code but limiting the roundings.
(<grin/> it's not fun)

Daniel

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