ANSI C & perfect decimal<-> fp conversions

[Dan Schlitt]

Apropos some of this conversation, perhaps some of you can enlighten me
concerning the current validity of an old article -- W. Kahan, A
Survey of Error Analysis, in Information Processing 71, North-Holland
Publishing Company(1972) on page 1214.  If it is not completely
obsolete or wrong then the section starting at the bottom of page 1227
might be of interest.  

/dan