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[Caml-list] string_of_float -> float_of_string locale dependency bug

Evgeny Chukreev
- Yamagata Yoriyuki
- Xavier Leroy
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  - Yamagata Yoriyuki
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      - Xavier Leroy
        
        Shawn Wagner
    - Xavier Leroy
      - Yamagata Yoriyuki

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@i...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] string_of_float -> float_of_string locale dependency bug

> Another approach: write own strtod function which doesn't depend on
> the LC_NUMERIC locale.

Of course, having our own string <-> float conversions would work
around this issue and other issues as well, such as the inability of
the C library functions to print a float *exactly* (i.e. with just
enough decimals that it reads back to the very same float).

This is no small undertaking, however, and one has a feeling of
reinventing the wheel.

The ANSI C standard library is quite small to begin with, but the
addition of locales managed to render it even less useful...

- Xavier Leroy

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