On 06/07/05, Lev Bishop wrote: > 4) I have no idea what mingw is doing, but it's different to the > above. Gcc constructs the same double precision constants as on cygwin > but strtod() is different and seems to have less precision, and > printf() seems to work with about 16 digits precision. At a glance I'd > say it rounds to zero, with exactly the precision of ... the precision of a raw double.
Ie, it looks like the cygwin build works slightly nicer than mingw with plenty of extra precision for conversions to and from decimal, and round-to-even for runtime conversions, which is a good thing. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
