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Hello night-shift,
the D Programming Language (dlang.org) is missing an implementation for converting floating point numbers to strings. At the moment a C function is called which has the big disadvantage that the conversion cannot be done at compile time.
(D has extremely good compile time and template features)
It would be genius if we could add your implementation to the D standard library.
This would solve a lot of problems we currently have.

The issue is, D is using the Boost license (https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt).
Boost and MIT license are not compatible.
Is there any chance you could publish your implementation also under the Boost license?

Please see also this forum post about your implementation
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]

Kind regards
Andre

Documentation states that,

void print(double d)
{
    char buf[24 + 1]; // plus null terminator
    int str_len = fpconv_dtoa(d, buf);

    buf[str_len] = '\0';
    printf("%s", buf);
}

int main() {
    print(-151115727451828646838272.0);
    return 0;
}

(for such a trivial example, may need to compile with -fsanitize=address to clearly illustrate the fault)