Guard displayExponent overflow in _toScientific (#185)

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Summary

• _toScientific computes displayExponent = exponent + scaleExponent where scaleExponent is 75 or 76 (from maximizeFull). For valid Float values whose exponent is within ~76 of int32.max, displayExponent overflows int32 and the formatter emits a string the parser cannot re-pack — a silent data-corruption bug.
• Fix: guard the overflow and revert with UnformatableExponent(exponent) before emitting.
• Two new tests: testFormatScientificDisplayExponentOverflowReverts (exact reproduction of the bug with (10, int32.max)) and testFormatScientificExponentAtMaxBoundarySucceeds (boundary: (1, int32.max) formats cleanly to "1e2147483647").

Closes #185

⚠️ REQUIRES REDEPLOY BEFORE MERGE

This changes LibFormatDecimalFloat, which is part of the deployed DecimalFloat contract. The testDeployAddress and testExpectedCodeHashDecimalFloat CI tests will fail until the Manual sol artifacts workflow is triggered on this branch:

gh workflow run manual-sol-artifacts.yaml --ref 2026-06-17-issue-185-scientific-exponent-overflow -f suite=decimal-float

Test plan

• testFormatScientificDisplayExponentOverflowReverts — new, confirms revert for the overflow case
• testFormatScientificExponentAtMaxBoundarySucceeds — new, confirms the boundary value still formats
• All 25 existing LibFormatDecimalFloatToDecimalStringTest tests still pass
• Mutation-kill verified: testFormatScientificDisplayExponentOverflowReverts uses vm.expectRevert — removing the guard causes the test to fail

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Added test coverage for scientific format exponent boundary handling.

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• test/src/lib/format/LibFormatDecimalFloat.toDecimalString.t.sol

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Walkthrough

Two unit tests are added to LibFormatDecimalFloatToDecimalStringTest to cover the displayExponent int32 overflow fix from issue #185. One test asserts a revert with UnformatableExponent when the display exponent exceeds int32 range; the other asserts successful formatting at the exact int32.max boundary.

Changes

Scientific displayExponent overflow tests

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scientific displayExponent overflow and boundary tests test/src/lib/format/LibFormatDecimalFloat.toDecimalString.t.sol	testFormatScientificDisplayExponentOverflowReverts constructs a lossless Float that overflows the internal displayExponent range and asserts revert with UnformatableExponent. testFormatScientificExponentAtMaxBoundarySucceeds asserts that formatting 1 with int32.max exponent succeeds and returns the canonical 1e<maxInt32> string.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: guarding against displayExponent overflow in _toScientific per issue #185.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR fully implements approach (1) from issue #185: detecting displayExponent overflow and reverting with UnformatableExponent, with two comprehensive tests validating overflow and boundary cases.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are narrowly scoped to adding tests for the displayExponent overflow fix; no unrelated modifications are present.
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[thedavidmeister]

Producer note: WAITING-DEPLOY (+1 inherited fuzz red). The 5 testProdDeployment* pins fail ('DecimalFloat not deployed') — same condition as main; needs the pre-merge deploy, not a code fix. The additional testRoundTripFuzzPow failure is the pre-existing #239 pow exponent-overflow bug hit by this run's fuzz seed — this PR only touches the _toScientific display path; the failure disappears once the #239 fix (#244 or #242) merges into this branch.

[thedavidmeister]

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Producer note: CORRECTION — my previous note said this PR carries '+1 inherited fuzz red' (testRoundTripFuzzPow). That detail was wrong: it belongs to PR #244's run, not this one. This PR's current run (28592793150) fails ONLY the 5 testProdDeployment* 'DecimalFloat not deployed' pins (508 passed), identical to main (run 28391168330). State remains WAITING-DEPLOY: greens at the interactive pre-merge deploy from this branch.

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🤖 ai:producer
Producer note: CORRECTION of my 2026-07-05 correction — it inverted reality. Re-read of run 28592793150 (this PR's current head 0dfd28c): it has SIX failing tests — the 5 testProdDeployment* prod pins (WAITING-DEPLOY, same as main) PLUS testRoundTripFuzzPow in LibDecimalFloat.pow.t.sol (fuzz counterexample hitting the pre-existing #239 pow exponent-overflow bug; this PR's diff is test-only in format tests and cannot cause a pow revert — the fix carriers are #242/#244). It was PR #244's run that shows only the 5 pins. State: WAITING-DEPLOY + 1 inherited fuzz red; no code action here.