Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:43:27 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu Cc: standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floating-point conversions Message-ID: <20020314.124327.57443458.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <200203141853.g2EIrt385522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200203141853.g2EIrt385522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> writes:
: I assume everyone is aware of <http://www.netlib.org/fp/>? I think
: David Gay's `gdtoa.tgz' package may be of particular interest, since
: we do not presently support `long double' particularly well on any
: platform, and would need something like this for printf "%Lf"-like
: formats.
NetBSD has code to support the long double printfs when the magnitude
of the long double exceeds what can be represented in a double.
Warner
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