From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-04-18T01:29:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Roundoff problem with Float and Marshal


In message "Re: Roundoff problem with Float and Marshal"
    on 03/04/18, nobu.nokada@softhome.net <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> writes:

|> This is caused by bad implementation of strtod that Ruby 1.8 uses (in
|> util.c).  I will seek for the better one.
|
|Hmmm, it seems so.
|
|$ ruby -e 'p 3.7517675036461267e+17'
|3.7517675036461261e+17
|
|
|Index: util.c
|===================================================================
|RCS file: /pub/cvs/ruby/src/ruby/util.c,v
|retrieving revision 1.32
|diff -u -2 -p -w -r1.32 util.c
|--- util.c	16 Jan 2003 07:34:03 -0000	1.32
|+++ util.c	17 Apr 2003 16:10:57 -0000

Wow, you're so fast.  Please commit this fix.

							matz.