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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-02-06 23:38:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-02-06 23:38:10 +0000 |
| commit | eecdb66e2703f1b4556c3b52acafae55c7e4d968 (patch) | |
| tree | 23ece167cc29c7185ead2fdf118a7235e43d0c22 /hints | |
| parent | 9b7cf638a3124941b94670130183a53639a76cb3 (diff) | |
| download | perl-eecdb66e2703f1b4556c3b52acafae55c7e4d968.tar.gz | |
OS/390 gcvt() seems buggy: with -W 0,float(ieee) it
mangles 0.1 to "10". sprintf() seems more well-behaved.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14579
Diffstat (limited to 'hints')
| -rw-r--r-- | hints/os390.sh | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hints/os390.sh b/hints/os390.sh index bb41e6719f..8766f0b566 100644 --- a/hints/os390.sh +++ b/hints/os390.sh @@ -203,6 +203,14 @@ EOWARN fi fi +# Most of the time gcvt() seems to work fine but +# sometimes values like 0.1, 0.2, come out as "10", "20", +# a trivial Perl demonstration snippet is 'print 0.1'. +# Yes, a flagrant bug, but unfortunately not trivial to +# reproduce in C using gcvt(). +# sprintf() seems to get things right(er). +d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*g",(n),(x))' + cat >config.arch<<'__CONFIG_ARCH__' # The '-W 0,float(ieee)' cannot be used during Configure as ldflags. |