[cp-patches] RFC: strtod patch from early 2004

[Andrew John Hughes]

I've recently moved to a 64-bit architecture (x86_64) and yesterday I
encountered some problems building the generics branch with ecj on kaffe
and Debian GNU/Linux.  Namely, the MIN_DOUBLE value is not recognised as
valid.  Using parseDouble on this value shows that the fdlibm
implementation of strtod reports an underflow and 0 is returned.

This lead to me finding the following post:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2004-01/msg00057.html

Applying this patch solves the problem and the right value is returned.
Does anyone know what the state of this patch is, and why it wasn't
applied?  It does solve the problem in this case, but I don't know how
it fares in general.  Any comments, and testing on some other platforms
would be much appreciated.

FWIW, the conversion also works with the platform strtod, so this is
also an option (although again I don't know how general this is, and it
has been disabled for cases where KISSME_LINUX_USER is not defined).

Thanks,
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