Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard
From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Bug in estdio
Message-ID: <3500@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Oct 90 17:16:19 GMT
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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I'm posting this here because (a) it's likely to affect some Minix users
and (b) I can't find Earl Chew's mail address.

In _f_cvt.c at line 458:

/* Convert exponent */
  if (fracfill != 0 && (fflag & F_FPFORMATE)) {
    fv[++fvx].att = FV_F_PADDING;
    fv[fvx].len   = fracfill;
    fv[fvx].arg   = __zfill;
    fv[++fvx].len = FV_F_VECTOR;                  <------- WRONG
    fv[fvx].len   = 0;
    fv[fvx].arg   = bp;
  }

The assignment should be 
	
    fv[++fvx].att = FV_F_VECTOR;

The symptom of this bug is that occasionally e-format numbers will
print as 3.14159eeee (actually, that's just the symptom I got, others
may be possible).

-- Richard
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Richard Tobin,                       JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed             
AI Applications Institute,           ARPA:  R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
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