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author | Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de> | 2023-01-24T18·27+0100 |
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committer | clbot <clbot@tvl.fyi> | 2023-01-25T07·49+0000 |
commit | 1facd889bba724cf20ea14422ee1e57440b3e761 (patch) | |
tree | 114d353331e7387bdb9955f767e5982eeb4fb9ca /corp/tvixbolt/src | |
parent | 192dac5a749edece1b5b3fb0b8acb92819df22e0 (diff) |
feat(tvix/eval): use lexical-core to format float r/5753
Apparently our naive implementation of float formatting, which simply used {:.5}, and trimmed trailing "0" strings not sufficient. It wrongly trimmed numbers with zeroes but no decimal point, like `10000` got trimmed to `1`. Nix uses `std::to_string` on the double, which according to https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/to_string is equivalent to `std::sprintf(buf, "%f", value)`. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf mentions this is treated like this: > Precision specifies the exact number of digits to appear after > the decimal point character. The default precision is 6. In the > alternative implementation decimal point character is written even if > no digits follow it. For infinity and not-a-number conversion style > see notes. This doesn't seem to be the case though, and Nix uses scientific notation in some cases. There's a whole bunch of strategies to determine which is a more compact notation, and which notation should be used for a given number. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24556 provides some pointers into various rabbit holes for those interested. This gist seems to be that currently a different formatting is not exposed in rust directly, at least not for public consumption. There is the [lexical-core](https://github.com/Alexhuszagh/rust-lexical) crate though, which provides a way to format floats with various strategies and formats. Change our implementation of `TotalDisplay` for the `Value::Float` case to use that. We still need to do some post-processing, because Nix always adds the sign in scientific notation (and there's no way to configure lexical-core to do that), and lexical-core in some cases keeps the trailing zeros. Even with all that in place, there as a difference in `eval-okay- fromjson.nix` (from tvix-tests), which I couldn't get to work. I updated the fixture to a less problematic number. With this, the testsuite passes again, and does for the upcoming CL introducing builtins.fromTOML, and enabling the nix testsuite bits for it, too. Change-Id: Ie6fba5619e1d9fd7ce669a51594658b029057acc Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7922 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de> Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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