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authorMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2020-12-10 17:14:50 +0100
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2020-12-19 10:37:16 +0100
commit54addb01d8c2511ef96b0f0ca6b695d120dd8363 (patch)
treea8ac70074b5c5c0d8729898f309ef0cc20d73339 /qapi
parent7b205a7373c25db2f3680dee5a8c82e038135ec1 (diff)
string-output-visitor: Fix to use sufficient precision
The string output visitor should serialize numbers so that the string input visitor deserializes them back to the same number. It fails to do so. print_type_number() uses format %f. This is prone to nasty rounding errors. For instance, numbers between 0 and 0.0000005 get flushed to zero. We currently use this visitor only for HMP info migrate, info network, info qtree, and info memdev. No double values occur there as far as I can tell. Fix anyway by formatting with %.17g. 17 decimal digits always suffice for IEEE double. See also recent commit "qobject: Fix qnum_to_string() to use sufficient precision". Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20201210161452.2813491-9-armbru@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qapi')
-rw-r--r--qapi/string-output-visitor.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qapi/string-output-visitor.c b/qapi/string-output-visitor.c
index b74aa4d44c..5506c933de 100644
--- a/qapi/string-output-visitor.c
+++ b/qapi/string-output-visitor.c
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static bool print_type_number(Visitor *v, const char *name, double *obj,
Error **errp)
{
StringOutputVisitor *sov = to_sov(v);
- string_output_set(sov, g_strdup_printf("%f", *obj));
+ string_output_set(sov, g_strdup_printf("%.17g", *obj));
return true;
}