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Re: [Ask for help]: Met a problem with strtof


On 2014/4/28 21:55, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, Wang Weidong wrote:
> 
>> The syntax: Within FE_UPWARD mode, the operands is 32bits , do 
>> `+0x1.4EF009P-21/-0x1.000000P-5`, the expect result is '-0x1.4EF009P-16'.
> 
> But +0x1.4EF009P-21 and -0x1.4EF009P-16 aren't representable in binary32 
> (their mantissas span 25 bits), so such a test makes no sense at all. 

 
> Your problem seems to be with this third-party testsuite, not with glibc.
That's what I thought, too.
Thanks.

Regards
Wang

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