Preston Briggs <prest...@google.com> added the comment: In all this discussion, it seems that we have not discussed the possibility of adapting David Gay's code, dtoa.c, which nicely handles both halves of the problem. It's also free and has been well exercised over the years.
It's available here: http://www.netlib.org/fp/ It'd probably have to be touched up a bit. Guido notes that, for example, malloc is called without checking the return value. Nevertheless, the core is what we're looking for, I believe. It's described in the paper: "Correctly rounded binary-decimal and decimal-binary conversions", David M. Gay It comes recommended by Steele and White (output) and by Clinger (input), in the retrospectives on their seminal papers. ---------- nosy: +preston _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1580> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
