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Author SHA1 Message Date
David Schultz
b7412bf571 Add a comment describing why it's important for the values in this
file to be correct, and how to generate them automatically.

Caused much pain and suffering for:	peter
2003-05-08 13:50:44 +00:00
David Schultz
6a66acb565 Replace our ancient dtoa/strtod implementation with the gdtoa
package, a more recent, generalized set of routines.  Among the
changes:
- Declare strtof() and strtold() in stdlib.h.
- Add glue to libc to support these routines for all kinds
  of ``long double''.
- Update printf() to reflect the fact that dtoa works slightly
  differently now.

As soon as I see that nothing has blown up, I will kill
src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.c.  Soon printf() will be able
to use the new routines to output long doubles without loss
of precision, but numerous bugs in the existing code must
be addressed first.

Reviewed by:	bde (briefly), mike (mentor), obrien
2003-03-12 20:30:00 +00:00