On: Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308

[Uchikoma]

Yes, astonishing how Oracle (and others) didn't check their code when this surfaced in PHP to determine if they are affected too.

[gaius → Uchikoma]

Yet not astonishing how the GCC team didn't fix it once, for everyone?

PS I am pretty sure Oracle, at least on Sun, used SPARCworks compiler, not GCC, from linking C++ against their libs.

[pilif → gaius]

They did fix it in 4.5 by having you to pass

    -fexcess-precision=standard

Which apparently defaults to not being standard compliant.

[krakensden → pilif]

it depends on how you define 'standard compliant', and fiddling with floating point behavior tends to break programs and make people angry.