Tom Sommer wrote:
> On Fri, January 5, 2007 01:13, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> 
>> With this release we are nearing the final stretch is the release
>> cycle, so I'd like to ask all developers to refrain from making any commits
>> to the 5.2 tree that are not bug fixes. If all goes well the final RC
>> (RC3) will be available in 2 weeks to be shortly followed by
>> the final release.
> 
> Any word on bug #36008, is it fixed?
> 
> It's pretty nasty for people running accounting and financially critical
> applications.

How is that a bug?  Floating point values need to be sanitized before
you do any sort of calculation with them or you will be magnifying any
system-level imprecision.  In that example he sanitized it by converting
it to a string which isn't magic, it is just another way to truncate the
imprecision.  Any decent accounting/financial application should be
working in integers (as in cents) and should never run into these
issues.  There is nothing we can do to fix this.

-Rasmus

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