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

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 01:21:53PM -0500, Morten Welinder wrote:
> If I understand you right, you are rolling your own atof.

Yep.

> That is tricky business.

Yep.

> There are some tricky cases at
> 
>     http://www.exploringbinary.com/incorrectly-rounded-conversions-in-gcc-and-glibc/
> 
> that glibc has only recently gotten right.

Thanks.

Does anyone know why we roll our own?

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