| testfp.txt contains conversion tests from Vern Paxson's paper |
| “A Program for Testing IEEE Decimal-Binary Conversion” |
| https://www.icir.org/vern/papers/testbase-report.pdf |
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| That paper from 1991 describes a tester called 'testbase', |
| written in non-64-bit-safe pre-ANSI C. |
| As of 2025, it is still available at ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/testbase.tar.Z. |
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| The files |
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| https://swtch.com/testbase/atof.txt |
| https://swtch.com/testbase/ftoa.txt |
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| are the test inputs that testbase generates and checks, |
| logged during an actual run, totaling about 10 MB. |
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| The files atof1k.txt and ftoa1k.txt in this directory each contain |
| 1000 random samples of the full trace. They are used during |
| 'go test internal/strconv'. |
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| Running 'go test internal/strconv -testbase' downloads the |
| complete files into this directory as atof.txt and ftoa.txt and |
| then uses those instead of the sampled versions. |
| The complete tests take about 10 seconds on a Macbook Pro. |
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| Backup copies of the files are also posted at |
| https://gist.github.com/rsc/606b378b0bf95c24a6fd6cef99e262e1. |
