bzr commit into mysql-5.5-next-mr-bugfixing branch (holyfoot:2940) Bug#36829

[Alexey Botchkov]

#At file:///home/hf/work/mysql_common/36829/ based on
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 2940 Alexey Botchkov	2009-11-05
      Bug#36829      Decimal to double conversion is inaccurate
          it's the 'string to double' conversion that isn't accurate here.
          if we use 'long double' instead of the 'double' to accumulate the
          result, the precision isn't lost.
          The 'double to string' conversion still isn't fixed in this case, but
          that's how it was in 4.0
      
      per-file comments:
        strings/strtod.c
      Bug#36829      Decimal to double conversion is inaccurate
         long double used to accumulate the result

    modified:
      strings/strtod.c
=== modified file 'strings/strtod.c'
--- a/strings/strtod.c	2007-08-13 13:11:25 +0000
+++ b/strings/strtod.c	2009-11-05 07:25:48 +0000
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ const double log_10[] = {
 
 double my_strtod(const char *str, char **end_ptr, int *error)
 {
-  double result= 0.0;
+  long double result= 0.0;
   uint negative= 0, neg_exp= 0;
   size_t ndigits, dec_digits= 0;
   int exponent= 0, digits_after_dec_point= 0, tmp_exp, step;


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