Comment 14 for bug 408694

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Ross M. (rwmcfa1) wrote : Re: [Bug 408694] Re: main.func_math fails due to precision error

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Ross McFarland<email address hidden> wrote:

> so something down inside of protocol->store is different between the
> two. i'll be off of here for a couple hours, but once i'm back i'm
> going to start walking down in that code and see where i get, but i
> assume there are likely large differences in the protocol between the
> two (if protocol ends up meaning what i currently guess that it does.)

problem is in drizzle mystrings/dtoa.cc, dtoa

only reference to dtoa in mysql51:

strings/decimal.c:

int double2decimal(double from, decimal_t *to)
{
  /* TODO: fix it, when we'll have dtoa */
...

walking through that func (it's huge and hairy) to try to determine
what's going on.

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-rm