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	Delorie on Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:05:36 -0400)
Subject: Re: Anomaly in printf()
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> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:05:36 -0400
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> >   . The closest long double to (unsigned long long)(-1) is
> >     18446744073709551613.75;
> 
> How did you come up with this number?

Deduction, perhaps mistaken: after the first iteration thru this
loop:

      for (; integer && p >= startp; ++expcnt)
      {
	tmp = modfl(integer * 0.1L , &integer);
	*p-- = tochar((int)((tmp + .01L) * 10));
      }

the value of `integer' had a .375 as its fraction.

[As I wrote in my other mail today, "(unsigned long long)(-1)" should
have been "(unsigned long long)(-1) - 1".]