Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:03:42 +0100 Message-ID: <3874-Tue18Jul2000130342+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.6.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.6.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Net version 1.1.0: gcc 2.95.2-2 compiler bug In-Reply-To: References: Is this fix likely to get incorporated into latest soon, or should I add something to the FAQ about it? Thanks, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) On Tuesday 11 Jul 00, Ulrich Jakobus writes: > Hello, > > concerning the following problem: > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 01:42:35PM -1000, Jim Heasley wrote: > > >In porting some astronomical data handling software from linux/unix to > > >Cygwin (the latest nework release, 1.1.0 I believe), I discovered an > > >error in how gcc 2.95.2-2 generates output of a floating or double > > >variable set to 0.0 when formatted with a %E format. I didn't get any > > >hits on this problem in the FAQ or mail lists. The following little > > >test program illustrates the problem: > > > > To investigate this problem, please check out the 'newlib' part of the > > cygwin package. That's where things like printf are implemented. > > > > cgf > > Please see the earlier discussions about that problem in > this mailing list: > > - cygwin-1.1.2: printf("%e") broken > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-06/msg00358.html > > - Latest gcc/cygwin - bug in %e format specifier? > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-06/msg00730.html > > - Re: Latest gcc/cygwin - bug in %e format specifier? > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-06/msg00745.html > > The last reference has a fix in vfprintf.c: > > 2000-06-15 DJ Delorie > > * libc/stdio/vfprintf.c: pad 0.0 correctly with %e > > > Ulrich -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com