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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 04:15:05 -0400
From: Lev Bishop <lev DOT bishop AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: SV: Bug in printf ?
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On 06/07/05, Lev Bishop wrote:
> 4) I have no idea what mingw is doing, but it's different to the
> above. Gcc constructs the same double precision constants as on cygwin
> but strtod() is different and seems to have less precision, and
> printf() seems to work with about 16 digits precision. At a glance I'd
> say it rounds to zero, with exactly the precision of
... the precision of a raw double.

Ie, it looks like the cygwin build works slightly nicer than mingw
with plenty of extra precision for conversions to and from decimal,
and round-to-even for runtime conversions, which is a good thing.

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