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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:28:00 -0000
From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
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Subject: Re: real_from_string fails to convert negative values
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On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 10:37:21PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> The real_from_string function in real.c doesn't seem to convert negative 
> numbers correctly. It seems to return the absolute (ie. positive) value of 
> the value, and ignore any preceeding - signs.

Sure enough.  The existing code only works for -0.  I'll have it fixed
in a moment.


r~