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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients alexandre.vassalotti, amaury.forgeotdarc, christian.heimes, gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, nascheme, noam, preston, rhettinger, skip.montanaro, tim.peters
Date 2009-02-25.17:45:32
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> It'd probably have to be touched up a bit.

This may be an understatement. :-)

In the first 50 lines of the 3897-line dtoa.c file, I see this warning:

/* On a machine with IEEE extended-precision registers, it is
 * necessary to specify double-precision (53-bit) rounding precision
 * before invoking strtod or dtoa.  [...] */

It seems to me that figuring out how and when to do this, and
writing and testing the appropriate configure/pyport/whatever
code, is already a nontrivial task.
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