Following a complaint on IRC about the dearth of information on how to
migrate to a new major version in the release notes, the attached
trivial patch was determined to be sufficient for the OP.
This patch applies to REL_12_STABLE. I don't know how far it should be
backpatched (the OP was trying
Hi,
Can you please someone elaborate what's the meaning of "even" in
datatype.sgml?
By default, floating point values are output in text form in their
shortest precise decimal representation; the decimal value produced is
closer to the true stored binary value than to any othe
On 30/12/2019 01:34, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can you please someone elaborate what's the meaning of "even" in
> datatype.sgml?
>
>
> By default, floating point values are output in text form in their
> shortest precise decimal representation; the decimal value produced is
>
> On 30/12/2019 01:34, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can you please someone elaborate what's the meaning of "even" in
>> datatype.sgml?
>>
>>
>> By default, floating point values are output in text form in their
>> shortest precise decimal representation; the decimal value produce
Tatsuo Ishii writes:
>>> Can you please someone elaborate what's the meaning of "even" in
>>> datatype.sgml?
representable values, in order to avoid a widespread bug where input
routines do not properly respect the round-to-even rule.) This value will
>> It does actually mean "even and
