http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48651
--- Comment #3 from Thomas Henlich <thenlich at users dot sourceforge.net> 2011-04-17 18:34:15 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > hmm, notice the typo! i have set ldnum to 0.0 but it still is printing the > value of dnum. What am I doing wrong. > > $ cat sprint.c > #include <stdio.h> > > int > main () > { > float num = 0.9; > double dnum = 0.9; > long double ldnum = 25.6; > printf("%50.48f\n", num); > printf("%50.48lf, %d\n", num, sizeof(num)); > printf("%80.78f\n", dnum); > printf("%80.78lf, %d\n", dnum, sizeof(dnum)); > printf("%80.78f\n", ldnum); > printf("%80.78lf, %d\n", ldnum, sizeof(ldnum)); Check your format strings, use "lf" only for long double.