>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
Andrew> Because it turns out that Windows (at least the version running
Andrew> on Appveyor) completely fucks this up; strtof() is apparently
Andrew> returning infinity or zero _without setting errno_ for values
Andrew> out of range for float: input of "10e70" returns +inf with no
Andrew> error, input of "10e-70" returns (exactly) 0.0 with no error.
This bug turns out to be dependent on compiler/SDK versions, not
surprisingly. So far I have figured out how to invoke these combinations
on appveyor:
VS2013 / SDK 7.1 (as per cfbot): fails
VS2015 / SDK 8.1: works
Trying to figure out how to get other combinations to test.
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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
