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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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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.

-GAWollman


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