runtime: println should handle signed zero correctly #6899

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lexprfuncall opened this issue Dec 6, 2013 · 1 comment

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lexprfuncall commented Dec 6, 2013

println and fmt.Println have a different opinion about the sign of zero in the following
example

http://play.golang.org/p/voOU-eM1gY

The root cause is runtime.printfloat assuming the sign of zero is positive. 
Fortunately, only two lines of code are sufficient to resolve this issue.

https://golang.org/cl/38120043

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lexprfuncall commented Dec 10, 2013

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