RFC/RFA: strtod() magnitude problem

[nick clifton]

Hi Corinna,

> Can you try if the below patch fixes the issue?  It's just a manual
> update of strtod (or rather _strtod_r) to the latest implementation
> from NetBSD.  There were a few changes which might explain your problem
> as well as the one encountered by Christian Bruel.

It does - although I had to tweak it slightly.  (Tweaked version 
attached).  There was one place I found where the dword1() macro was 
being used unsafely.  The attached patch includes a fix for this. There 
are other places where dword1() is used without checking 
DOUBLE_IS_32BITS, but these places are safe.

One point - this part of your patch:

>   static _CONST double tinytens[] = { 1e-16, 1e-32, 1e-64, 1e-128,
> -		9007199254740992.e-256
> +		9007199254740992.*9007199254740992.e-256
>   		};

appears to be a typo.  I have removed it in my revised patch, but maybe 
it needs fixing ?

Cheers
   Nick



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