From owner-freebsd-standards Thu Mar 14 11:43:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83DE937B400 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:43:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2EJhci38276; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:43:38 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2EJhbL51644; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:43:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:43:27 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020314.124327.57443458.imp@village.org> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu Cc: standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floating-point conversions From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200203141853.g2EIrt385522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200203141853.g2EIrt385522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <200203141853.g2EIrt385522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Garrett Wollman writes: : I assume everyone is aware of ? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message