Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> added the comment: The GNU library's float<->string routines are based on David Gay's. Therefore you can compare those to Gay's originals to see how much effort was required to make them "mostly" portable, and can look at the history of those to get some feel for the maintenance burden.
There's no difficulty in doing this correctly except for denormals. The pain is almost entirely in doing it correctly /fast/ -- and that is indeed hard (which accounts for the extreme length and complexity of Gay's code). _______________________________________ 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
