Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Koeppe wrote: >> The Interix libc is built with MSVC. MSVC has no long double data >> type. Ok, it understands "long double", but always maps that to 64-bit >> double. So libc's printf(), when it sees "%Lg", expects 64-bit double. >> >> But Interix also has gcc. gcc OTOH has 80 bit long double (stored are >> 12 bytes). When I build seq with gcc, for the "%Lg" arg 12 bytes are >> reserved. This will crash then. > > Adding the gnulib 'vasprintf-posix' module to bootstrap.conf should do > the trick. That's because the only 'long double' support that coreutils > requires are: > - the elementary operations, these are inlined by gcc or come from libgcc.a, > - asprintf(), this comes from gnulib. > > The same problem with 'seq' exists on mingw and BeOS, which - like Interix - > lack 'long double' support in printf().
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll probably do that. Is seq segfaulting on mingw and BeOS, too?
