[gdal-dev] Precission problem with atof

[Mateusz Loskot]

Jorge ArĂŠvalo wrote::
> Hello,
>
> Context: GDAL WKT Raster Driver
>
> While creating the Dataset, I execute this query:
>
> SELECT srid, ST_AsText(extent), pixelsize_x, pixelsize_y, blocksize_x,
> blocksize_y FROM raster_columns WHERE r_table_name = 'table' AND
> r_column = 'rast'
>
> I have loaded a 3-band tiff file with gdal2tiles. Its pixel size is
> 0.9. If I execute this line (over the result of the previous query):
>
>  fPixelSizeX = atof(PQgetvalue(hPGresult, 0, 2));
>
> I get 0.899999976158142 instead of 0.9.

Good.

> The string obtained wiht PQgetvalue is "0.9", but, for any reason,
> atof transform this string in 0.899999976158142.

http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

> So, seems to be a
> precission problem. think the string used by atof has any problem, but
> I'm not sure

Most computers suffer of this problem.

> What should I do?

You need to learn how to live with that problem :-)

> I tried to change atof(nptr) for strtod(nptr,
> (char**)NULL), but it didn't work...

And it won't help.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
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