From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] libfmt/libutf and long double
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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:17:30 -0500
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> 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.