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From: Benjamin Barenblat <bbaren@google.com>
Subject: Avoid libgcc -NaN narrowing bug
Forwarded: yes
Applied-Upstream: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/commit/1bae23e32ba1f1af7c7d1488a69a351ec96dc98d

When testing -NaN parsing, avoid narrowing -NaN from double to float. This
avoids a bug in libgcc (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98251).

The author works at Google. Upstream applied this patch as Piper revision
347654751 and exported it to GitHub; the Applied-Upstream URL above points to
the exported commit.

--- a/absl/strings/charconv_test.cc
+++ b/absl/strings/charconv_test.cc
@@ -653,7 +653,9 @@ TEST(FromChars, NaNFloats) {
                      negative_from_chars_float);
     EXPECT_TRUE(std::signbit(negative_from_chars_float));
     EXPECT_FALSE(Identical(negative_from_chars_float, from_chars_float));
-    from_chars_float = std::copysign(from_chars_float, -1.0);
+    // Use the (float, float) overload of std::copysign to prevent narrowing;
+    // see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98251.
+    from_chars_float = std::copysign(from_chars_float, -1.0f);
     EXPECT_TRUE(Identical(negative_from_chars_float, from_chars_float));
   }
 }