xbolva00 added inline comments.

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Comment at: lib/Sema/SemaChecking.cpp:110
+/// are usually useless
+static unsigned AdjustPrecision(unsigned precision) {
+  return (precision * 59 + 195) / 196;
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xbolva00 wrote:
> xbolva00 wrote:
> > craig.topper wrote:
> > > scanon wrote:
> > > > erichkeane wrote:
> > > > > Hmm.... I don't terribly understand how this function works.  Also, 
> > > > > comment above needs to end in a period.  
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can you elaborate further as to how this works?  Those are 3 pretty 
> > > > > suspect looking magic numbers...
> > > > It's attempting to compute the number of good base-10 digits (59/196 ~= 
> > > > log2(10)). We should really just make APFloat print the shortest 
> > > > round-trippable digit sequence instead. Yes, this is tricky to 
> > > > implement, but we don't need to implement it. There are two recent 
> > > > high-quality implementations available, which are both significantly 
> > > > faster than previous algorithms: Ryu and Swift's 
> > > > (https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/runtime/SwiftDtoa.cpp).
> > > >  Swift's has the virtue of already being used in LLVM-family languages 
> > > > and having a tidy single-file implementation, but either would be 
> > > > perfectly usable, I think.
> > > > 
> > > > Neither supports float128 yet, but we could simply drop them in for 
> > > > float, double, and float80.
> > > Function names should start with lower case I think?
> > float80 has precision = 64 so we can put MAX value of unsigned long long 
> > into it with no issues, or?
> Other static functions here use upper case, e.g. "PrettyPrintInRange",  so I 
> follow it :) 
> float80 has precision = 64 so we can put MAX value of unsigned long long into 
> it with no issues, or?

ah, int128_t


https://reviews.llvm.org/D52835



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