Tom Tromey writes: > >>>>> "Twisti" == Christian Thalinger <twisti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Twisti> A few days back I tried to implement float printing in > Twisti> Formatter. When looking at the existing int/long code, I saw > Twisti> that toString() functions are used to print the value to a > Twisti> buffer. That seems to be ok for such values, but handling > Twisti> floats like this won't work, I guess. So the question is, > Twisti> should we stick to our native float-printing implementation > Twisti> (dtoa) or would it be better to have something, more flexible, > Twisti> in Java? > > I suspect Formatter will need its own FP-formatting code. Perhaps, but the dtoa implementation we use is really good, and very flexible. AFAICS from the definition of Formatter, dtoa does almost of of what is needed with the exception of hex ouput -- which is trivial. Andrew.
