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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] libfmt/libutf and long double
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:17:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Abj2I-0002fp-T5@t40.swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:10:41 EST." <C01AD478-3A75-11D8-BD48-000A95C53D8A@suspicious.org>

> Hello,
>
> I've run into a behavior with libfmt/libutf on UNIX system
> that does not seem intuitive:
>
> 	long double ldv = 3.3;
> 	print("long double var = %llE\n", ldv);
>
> gives:
> 	long double var = -6.257775E+92
>
> Identical code under Plan 9 gives the expected output of:
>
> 	long double var = 3.300000E+00
>
> Is there any particular reason why the behaviors should
> differ in this manner ?

yes, plan 9 doesn't implement long double and your unix does.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-31 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-30  3:10 suspect
2003-12-30  3:30 ` David Presotto
2003-12-31 16:17 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2003-12-31 18:43   ` suspect
2003-12-31 19:11     ` David Presotto

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