From: Ruben Perez (rubenperez038_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-01-17 11:12:06


> > Under which conditions would this happen? Could you please provide an
> example?
> >
>
>
> With arbitrary precision floats, e.g. GMP's mpf_t, it is not uncommon to
> dump the representation to char* using mpf_get_str. Say it had 1100 digits
> of what would be a 128-bit subnormal number then you would hit this edge
> case.
>

I see. Out of curiosity, what makes the parsing algorithm fail such that
you need to call strtold?