Re: msvcrt: Calculate floating point decimals in internally used long double precision.

[Austin English]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Gregor Schneider <grschneider(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch proposes to calculate the fp digits in scanf with the internally
> used long double precision instead of simple float accuracy.
> With the current implementation small errors are added with each calculation
> step originating from the used float type.
> This becomes obvious when parsing to more precise fp types like double or
> long double and outputting a large number of digits from the created number.
> Example code like the following
>
> double d;
> swscanf(L"3.1415", L"%lf", &d);
> wprintf(L"%3.12f\n", d);
>
> produces an output of "3.141500000478", while "3.141500000000" would be the
> expected result with this precision. The attached patch fixes this problem.

Please add a testcase for this behavior, to prevent regressions.

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-Austin