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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2015-12-02 21:07:26 +0000
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2015-12-02 21:07:26 +0000
commit14681ad04c791ec08ede7a2cd7fa23f515a56dcb (patch)
tree30f6afe2651865ff4c042ee2e466d5ac070b7f7a
parent5a5dbc51ae1ddf8fd762c52767bd02e88e83dfa7 (diff)
downloadperl-14681ad04c791ec08ede7a2cd7fa23f515a56dcb.tar.gz
Update perldelta for changes in RC3
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
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@@ -255,6 +255,13 @@ cases where the last hexadecimal digit of the mantissa has bits straddling the
limit of the number of bits allowed for the mantissa, has also been fixed.
L<[perl #126586]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126586>
+=item *
+
+Further hexadecimal floating point bugs have been fixed: In some circumstances,
+the C<%a> format specifier could variously lose the sign of the negative zero,
+fail to display zeros after the radix point with the requested precision, or
+even lose the radix point after the leftmost hexadecimal digit completely.
+
=back
=head1 Acknowledgements