Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Just so I don't forget, there are a couple more places in the dtoa.c that look
suspicious and need to be checked; I haven't tried to generate failures for
them yet. Since we're up to bug 5, I'll number these 6 and 7:
(6) at the end of bigcomp, when applying the round-to-even rule for halfway
cases, the lsb of rv is checked. This looks wrong if bc->scale is nonzero.
(7) In the main strtod correction loop, after computing delta and i, there's a
block:
bc.nd = nd;
i = -1; /* Discarded digits make delta smaller. */
This logic seems invalid if all the discarded digits are zero. (This is the
same logic error as is causing bug5: the bigcomp comparison code also assumes
incorrectly that digit nd-1 of s0 is nonzero.)
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