Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering pushed for a quick resolution: >> I'm hoping to make a coreutils test release RSN, >> and one of the few things missing is the macro to help >> work around the freebsd 6.1 long double printf bug. > > Your test proggie results revealed that the bug is that although > 'long double' generally has 53 bits of precision (in compile-time > expressions, in <float.h>, and in some run-time computations), it sometimes > has 64 bits of precision (in some other run-time computations). To me, > that counts as "excess precision". > > I planned to conditionally disable the check in vasnprintf.c; but I don't > have much time right now and you are pushing, so I disable it unconditionally. > > 2007-11-26 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * lib/vasnprintf.c (decode_long_double): Don't abort if the > 'long double' type has excess precision. > Reported by Jim Meyering in > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-11/msg00120.html>.
Thanks! That did the trick.
