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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:41:35 +0200
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Subject: Re: Anomaly in printf()
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> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:21:04 +0300 (EET DST)
> From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
> 
> Actually, it doesn't; if the number is greater than 2^64, this could
> put random garbage on the string.  So we need to test the return value
> of modfl to see if we can know the digit at all.  This should really do
> it right:

Thanks!

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