Paul A Bristow wrote:
Sorry for an Off-topic question, but does anyone know of a C/C++ Implementation of a C++ algorithm based on the paper by Robert G. Burger and R. Kent Dybvig, entitled: "Printing Floating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately" http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=989393.989430 ACM subscribers only http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/2654/http:zSzzSzwww.cs.indiana.e duzSz~burgerzSzFP-Printing-PLDI96.pdf/printing-floating-point-numbers.pdf
For me that's not completely off-topic as I always wished boost could provide this algorithms one day :-) However, I'm not really an expert in this field so I never started working on it. Nevertheless, there is an earlier paper by David Gay from 1990 for which an implementation exists. AFAIK Mozilla's JavaScript implementation also uses a java port of it. Although I have downloaded Burger's paper (published in 1996, IIRC) once, I never investigated what's different/improved there. Gay's implementation can be found both at http://www.netlib.org/fp/index.html and http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/gay90correctly.html (seems to be down at the moment). If you also need the papers, tell me and I send them offlist. Stefan