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From: goldman@xenna.UUCP (Steve Goldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: Compiler bug or insuficient language definition ?
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Date: 1 Jun 89 14:58:23 GMT
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  Answer is (c) other. Multimax floating point is little endian. f is promoted
to double on each printf call. The second call dutifully prints the low order
32 bits of the mantissa which are zero. On a big endian machine you'd get the
high order bits which in this case are much more interesting.

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