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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Printf Core Dumps on A/UX
Message-ID: <8686@alice.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 16:21:47 GMT
References: <3568@emory.uucp>
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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In article <3568@emory.uucp> km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
}I consider this a bug:
}
}The printf on A/UX will core dump with a floating point
}exception on extreme data. For example:
}
}		printf("%g\n", 0x7fffffff);
}
}will core dump on A/UX. On our BSD and other USG systems, this
}prints "NaN", or some appropriate value (depending on the type
}of internal floating point format).

I don't consider this a bug. %g expects a double, i.e. 64 bits and
you only give it an int, i.e. 32 bits.

But maybe you have other examples...

Paul.
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