Subject: Re: bug#14650: coreutils' getlimits fails to represent float limits correctly

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:47:03 -0700

On 06/17/2013 11:10 PM, [email-masked] wrote:
> I'm not aware of a convenient way to compute the number
> of digits

coreutils already can do that; see lib/ftoastr.h.
Presumably coreutils should use the ftoastr module hear.