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go/types: negative float constants close to 0 should become -0 floats when converting to IEEE and underflow occurs #6898

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griesemer opened this issue Dec 6, 2013 · 3 comments
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go/types: negative float constants close to 0 should become -0 floats when converting to IEEE and underflow occurs #6898

griesemer opened this issue Dec 6, 2013 · 3 comments
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x := -1e-10000

(or similar) should probably be materialized as a -0.0.

Check if the case.

Also, this might require a spec clarification.
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Comment 2:

The spec leaves the behavior open since x := -1e10000 is equivalent to var x =
float64(-1e10000) :
"In all non-constant conversions involving floating-point or complex values, if the
result type cannot represent the value the conversion succeeds but the result value is
implementation-dependent."
For the reference, gccgo produces -0 in this case.

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@rsc rsc changed the title go.tools/go/types: negative float constants close to 0 should become -0 floats when converting to IEEE and underflow occurs x/tools/go/types: negative float constants close to 0 should become -0 floats when converting to IEEE and underflow occurs Apr 14, 2015
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@griesemer griesemer changed the title x/tools/go/types: negative float constants close to 0 should become -0 floats when converting to IEEE and underflow occurs go/types: negative float constants close to 0 should become -0 floats when converting to IEEE and underflow occurs Jul 31, 2015
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See also #12576.

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Per #12576 there are no -0 floating-point constants.

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