Re: [PATCH] ftoastr: new module, for lossless conversion of floats to short strings

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> * lib/ftoastr.h, lib/ftoastr.c, lib/dtoastr.c, lib/ldtoastr.c:
> * modules/ftoastr: New files.
> ---
>  ChangeLog       |    6 ++
>  lib/dtoastr.c   |    2 +
>  lib/ftoastr.c   |   89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/ftoastr.h   |  144 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/ldtoastr.c  |    2 +
>  modules/ftoastr |   25 ++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 268 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 lib/dtoastr.c
>  create mode 100644 lib/ftoastr.c
>  create mode 100644 lib/ftoastr.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/ldtoastr.c
>  create mode 100644 modules/ftoastr
>
> diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
> index 0e6240c..ea0610a 100644
> --- a/ChangeLog
> +++ b/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
> +2010-11-17  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
> +
> +     ftoastr: new module, for lossless conversion of floats to short strings
> +     * lib/ftoastr.h, lib/ftoastr.c, lib/dtoastr.c, lib/ldtoastr.c:
> +     * modules/ftoastr: New files.

Nice!
Before I'd looked through the code I started thinking this might
be useful in avoiding snprintf's unhealthy need to malloc.
Then I saw that it uses snprintf.  Oh well ;-)