Bug 14718 – float parsing depends on libc strtold precision

On a debian-7.4 system with an older glibc version the following floating point literals cannot be parsed because the compiler uses the platform strtold to convert the number. 0x1p-1024 0x1p-128f

Commits pushed to stable at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/eaeeccd4ac4845d07331ef6044e2050aca14b90a workaround Issue 14718 - float parsing depends on platform strtold - comment out the affected unittests for now https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/53dbbaa2bc18723a0a6d67a78fe0eb517430a50a Merge pull request #3433 from MartinNowak/workaround14718 workaround Issue 14718 - float parsing depends on platform strtold

Same problem on Centos 6.

Sounds a lot like this glibc bug [14047 – strtof gives spurious ERANGE errors](https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14047) which got fixed with glibc 2.17.

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/eaeeccd4ac4845d07331ef6044e2050aca14b90a workaround Issue 14718 - float parsing depends on platform strtold https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/53dbbaa2bc18723a0a6d67a78fe0eb517430a50a Merge pull request #3433 from MartinNowak/workaround14718

Commits pushed to dmd-cxx at https://github.com/dlang/phobos https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/eaeeccd4ac4845d07331ef6044e2050aca14b90a workaround Issue 14718 - float parsing depends on platform strtold https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/53dbbaa2bc18723a0a6d67a78fe0eb517430a50a Merge pull request #3433 from MartinNowak/workaround14718

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