What happened to the profile?

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Oct 7 06:42:17 UTC 2013


Sure did. Will fix.

/D

Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Robert Helling <helling at lmu.de> wrote:
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/3fat0kws2isqzkc/Screenshot%202013-10-07%2009.18.23.png
>>
>> Below is a profile with the binary I compiled on Friday, above the current master. Of course both are showing the same file. Is this intentional?
>
>Looks like something rounds to integer values. It's probably the glib
>removal code: I suspect ascii_strtod() is buggered. It uses "atof()",
>and likely re-introduced the bug that caused us to use ascii_strtod()
>in the first place. I'm guessing you have a german locale, and thus
>have the decimal point set to ',' and then atof() parses "3.5" as "3".
>
>That "ascii_strtod()" function really looks completely broken. It
>seems to be missing the whole "ascii" point, and instead does
>pointless things like "NaN" and "infinity" parsing. I'm guessing Dirk
>copied it from some odd source..
>
>                Linus


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