Fwd: Re: Javascript and konq crash

[Yan Seiner]

Eva Brucherseifer wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've created the attached patch, which at least doesn't break anything visible 
>to me:
>- it uses UString::from(double) from the cvs version below
>- I also tried to come up with replacements for the other usages of kjs_dtoa. 
>I am not sure it is correct though. The conversion code didn't exist at all 
>before kjs_dtoa was introduced. 
>- kjs_strtod was replace by strtod
>
>Maybe someone with more insight into kjs can have a look?
>
>Thanks,
>eva
>
>  
>

Eva:

There is a parallel discussion on floating point that may be of interest 
on the yahoo TS7000 group:

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000> .  If you visit, go back a few 
days...  There is a thread on floating point.  Read the posts by Lennert 
Buytenhek, one of the ARM kernel developers.  Apparently some versions 
of glibc are also broken, resulting in wrong floating point results.

--Yan