Re: GWT strange code generation on float numbers

My guess is it's because .000001 cannot be expressed exactly as a
float. Like base 10 cannot express 1/3, IEEE floats have trouble with
1/10 and derivatives.

Steve

On Feb 8, 9:54 am, Andrey Korzhevskiy <a.korzhevs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I found interesting issue. Suppose I have this java code:
>
> float f = 0.000001f;
> someFunc(f)
>
> which is generated by GWT into js code, something like that
>
> someFunc(9.9534e-7)
>
> So my question is: if GWT sees constant in code why it processes this
> constant so strange? I expect to see in generated js this call:
> someFunc(0.000001)
> Is there some complex float numbers processing in gwt-dev?
>
> Thank you,
> Andrew

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