float values at the extreme... when did things change?

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

David Schultz <das at freebsd.org> writes:
> I don't know why people keep assuming the 'g' stands for GNU.  I
> don't think it stands for the name of the author, either.  The
> original 'dtoa' routine provided IEEE 754 double conversions,
> whereas 'gdtoa' is a generic routine that operates on many
> different floating point formats.  (The algorithms are basically
> the same, albeit less efficient.)  Thus, the 'g' probably stands
> for ``generalized''.

Both the original dtoa implementation and gdtoa were written by the
same author, and he himself describes gdtoa a "generalization of
dtoa.c to other IEEE and IEEE-like precisions [...]"

DES
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