[PATCH] math: Merge strtod_nam_*.h into math-type-macros-*.h

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Tue May 15 19:33:00 GMT 2018


On 05/15/2018 11:22 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Okay. I thought that macro had a strange name, but it was probably 
> okay based on context, which is now gone.

Whatever context it had was incorrect, because floating point numbers do 
not have mantissas. They have significands. Properly speaking, a 
mantissa is the fractional part of a logarithm, and floating-point 
numbers do not use mantissas at all.



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