Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 20:24:44 +0700 From: "Nickolay N. Dudorov" <nnd@gw.itfs.nsk.su> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PERL4&5 broken in -current and 950322-SNAP! Message-ID: <199504061324.UAA10720@gw.itfs.nsk.su>
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>From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
>> The first loop prints out a "0." instead of a "0". This anomaly
>>also caused gcc to fail when compiling the extension modules (because
>>perl was generating array subscripts with 0. instead of 0). Anyone
>>have a gcc 2.6.2/pre-950322 machine to test this?
>The C printf function used to print "0" in some cases when it should
>have printed "0.". Apparently perl's tests expect the broken behaviour.
This is very strange but on FreeBSD-1.1.5.1, FreeBSD-2.0-950210-SNAP,
SunOS 4.1.3 and ISC 3.0 my test program prints:
1
0
and only on FreeBSD-current I see:
1
0.
(Test program :
main()
{
char b[256];
sprintf(b,"%g",1.0);
printf("%s\n",b);
sprintf(b,"%g",0.0);
printf("%s\n",b);
}
N.Dudorov
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