From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-04-18T15:45:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Roundoff problem with Float and Marshal

Hi,

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

|I'd tried C99 style hexadecimal float.  I expect this is
|portable (except for depending on frexp() and ldexp()), but
|could not be loaded by current version.

frexp(), ldexp() dependence is OK, since Ruby uses them in math.c
anyway.  But changing format version may cause problems, especially
for things like dRuby.  Hmmm.  Comments, anyone?

|But still, strtod() problem remains.

It is unavoidable as long as we use binary representation.

							matz.