Re[4]: [fpc-devel] format function

[Пётр Косаревский]

> representable in an exact way on any IEEE standard-compliant fpu. The  

Of course. But the result of "format" is user-oriented. User is not supposed to know about negative zero, denormal numbers, negative infinity and the whole IEEE 754.

If the user is supposed to understand that "-0.000" means "a small negative number", then it's ok. If the user will be terrified, it would be bad.