Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow instring-to-number

Dave Mitchell wrote:
>    I fixed this by stopping the processing of the integer or fractional
>    component once its been detected that only zeroes are left (with a
>    suitable adjustment of the exponent).

Eww.  That won't fix cases where the extra digits are non-zero, such as

$ echo 0.15301e-305 | perl -e '$v = <STDIN>; print "v=", $v + 0, "\n";'
v=0
$ echo 0.15399e-305 | perl -e '$v = <STDIN>; print "v=", $v + 0, "\n";'
v=0

-zefram

• [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow in string-to-number by perlbug-followup
• Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow instring-to-number by Dave Mitchell
• Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow instring-to-number by Zefram
• Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow instring-to-number by Dave Mitchell
• Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow instring-to-number by Dave Mitchell
• Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow instring-to-number by Dave Mitchell
• Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow in string-to-number by Morten Welinder
• Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow in string-to-number by Morten Welinder
• Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow instring-to-number by Dave Mitchell
• Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow in string-to-number by Father Chrysostomos
• Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow in string-to-number by sisyphus1
• Re: [perl #120426] Strange and unwarranted underflow in string-to-number by Karl Williamson