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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2007 22:59:48 -0400
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: a bug in printf %a
Message-ID:  <20070508025948.GA7859@VARK.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <200704060335.22770.bruno@clisp.org>
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On Fri, Apr 06, 2007, Bruno Haible wrote:
> sprintf (buf, "%.2a", 1.51)
> should produce "0x1.83p+0". On FreeBSD it produces "0x1.82p+0", which is
> incorrect since [1] says:
>    "For the a and A conversion specifiers, if FLT_RADIX is a power of 2, the
>     value shall be correctly rounded to a hexadecimal floating number with
>     the given precision."

Fixed in HEAD
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