From 54addb01d8c2511ef96b0f0ca6b695d120dd8363 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Armbruster Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:14:50 +0100 Subject: 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 Message-Id: <20201210161452.2813491-9-armbru@redhat.com> --- qapi/string-output-visitor.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'qapi') 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3