Add optional, external tests for floating point parsing.

Running these tests takes hours, so they are not run by @bors.

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/etc/test-float-parse/_common.rs b/src/etc/test-float-parse/_common.rs
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+// Copyright 2015 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+use std::io;
+use std::io::prelude::*;
+use std::mem::transmute;
+
+// Nothing up my sleeve: Just (PI - 3) in base 16.
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+pub const SEED: [u32; 3] = [0x243f_6a88, 0x85a3_08d3, 0x1319_8a2e];
+
+pub fn validate(text: String) {
+    let mut out = io::stdout();
+    let x: f64 = text.parse().unwrap();
+    let f64_bytes: u64 = unsafe { transmute(x) };
+    let x: f32 = text.parse().unwrap();
+    let f32_bytes: u32 = unsafe { transmute(x) };
+    writeln!(&mut out, "{:016x} {:08x} {}", f64_bytes, f32_bytes, text).unwrap();
+}