[LUCENENET-364] Workaround for a Mono float/Single parsing issue

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed

Environment

Mono 2.6.x

• Assignee: Digy
• Reporter: Robert Jordan
• Created: 01/May/10 19:23
• Updated: 20/Feb/11 06:53
• Resolved: 01/May/10 21:56

Description

Mono is not able to parse values greater or equal to Single.MaxValues correctly, e.g.:

Single.Parse(Single.MaxValue.ToString()) throws an OverflowException.

Since Test/Search/TestSort.cs is using such a value, all of its tests are failing.

I'm aware that this issue must be fixed in Mono (it's a known issue), but since TestSort is not about testing foat's accuracy, I'm attaching a patch the lets the tests pass on Mono. Please take it into consideration.