Fix for bug 67839 (mysqli does not handle 4-byte floats correctly) #772
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Before the patch, a value of 9.99 in a FLOAT column came out of mysqli as 9.9998998641968. This is because it would naively cast a 4-byte float into PHP's internal 8-byte double. To fix this, with GCC we use the built-in decimal support to "up-convert" the 4-byte float to a 8-byte double. When that is not available, we fall back to converting the float to a string and then converting the string to a double. This mimics what MySQL does.
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Before the patch, a value of 9.99 in a FLOAT column came out of mysqli
as 9.9998998641968. This is because it would naively cast a 4-byte float
into PHP's internal 8-byte double.
To fix this, with GCC we use the built-in decimal support to "up-convert"
the 4-byte float to a 8-byte double.
When that is not available, we fall back to converting the float
to a string and then converting the string to a double. This mimics
what MySQL does.