Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: ... >> 2007-11-01 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Adjust a seq subtest not to depend on the vagaries of floating point. >> * tests/misc/seq (float-3): Use 10.94 as the endpoint, not 10.95, >> since 10.95 was precisely in the middle of the interval, and with >> a %.1f format could map to either 10.9 or 11.0. >> Reported by Mike Frysinger > > I agree with the work around, but that's one buggy > printf rounding implementation if you ask me. > Where was this?
Hi Pádraig, I think Mike's was on some ppc-based system, but I think the cause was a buggy test, not a buggy printf function. Did you see Andreas' messages in this thread? http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/11713 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
