It then dawned upon me that if it's ok for quadmath builds to skip those tests, then it's ok for my patched approach to also skip them

However, quadmath's inability to pass those tests didn't change any pre-existing behaviour, whereas my patches have changed behaviour - and that might not be greeted so warmly.
I probably ought at least find out exactly what that change of behaviour is - though it's as clear as mud to me at the moment.
It would be great if anyone has some clear code that demonstrates what has actually changed.
In the meantime, it's back to perusing the perllocale docs and lib/locale.t. (Is there some other documentation that might be helpful to me ?)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^7: Avoiding perl's Atof when assigning floating point values by syphilis
in thread Avoiding perl's Atof when assigning floating point values by syphilis

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