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Russ Cox authored
The float32 const conversion used to round to float64 and then use the hardware to round to float32. Even though there was a range check before this conversion, the double rounding introduced inaccuracy: the round to float64 might round the value further away from the float32 range, reaching a float64 value that could not actually be rounded to float32. The hardware appears to give us 0 in that case, but it is probably undefined. Double rounding also meant that the wrong value might be used for certain border cases. Do the rounding the float32 ourselves, just as we already did the rounding to float64. This makes the conversion precise and also makes the conversion match the range check. Finally, add some code to print very large (bigger than float64) floating point constants in decimal floating point notation instead of falling back to the precise but human-unreadable binary floating point notation. Fixes #8015. LGTM=iant R=golang-codereviews, iant CC=golang-codereviews, r https://golang.org/cl/100580044
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