Re: *printf: recognize non-IEEE numbers

2007-06-06 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > perhaps some glibc-post-2.6 release would be a more reasonable target. Since the mentioned printf crash is not recognized as a bug by the glibc maintainers, I don't have much hope that it will be fixed, ever. Bruno

Re: *printf: recognize non-IEEE numbers

2007-06-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On i386, x86_64, ia64, the 'long double' format has an explicitly represented > most significant mantissa bit. This has the consequence that some bit patterns > in a 'long double' are not covered by IEEE 754. *printf better prints these > numbers as NaN (ra