Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 20:01:52 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: cagney@tpgi.com.au, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5135 Message-ID: <199711240901.UAA06647@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Synopsis: scanf accepts %Lg but treates it as %g
>
>State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
>State-Changed-By: joerg
>State-Changed-When: Mon Nov 24 08:49:18 MET 1997
>State-Changed-Why:
>
>Fixed by Bruce in rev 1.12 of src/lib/libc/stdio/vfscanf.c a couple of
>days ago (also merged to 2.2-stable).
I even reported it to bug-gdb.
Of course, the simple fix of reading long doubles as doubles doesn't
actually work if the input has more than double precision or is too
large for a double. The corresponding simplistic conversions for
printf causes more problems:
---
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
fprintf(stderr, "%.20Lg\n", 12345678901234567890.0L);
fprintf(stderr, "%.20Lg\n", 12345678901234567890.0e1234L);
}
---
Here the first printf loses precision and the second printf causes
SIGFPE for overflow (unless overflow exceptions are masked; then
then it loses precision and the result is "Inf").
Bruce
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