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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:31:49 -0400
From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] floatfmt on 64-bit targets?
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:25:30AM +0100, C H Forsyth wrote:
> was that on Plan 9 or plan 9 ports (and if so, which platform)?

As Jim discovered, it isn't 64-bit specific.
With %f, the stack-allocated buffer s in
floatfmt isn't big enough and so with a large
argument, the buffer gets overrun.