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Re: ecvt is completly broken

To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Subject: Re: ecvt is completly broken
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
Date: 23 Jun 1999 08:09:40 -0700
Cc: libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com
References: <19990623123130.A23002@Wotan.suse.de>
Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)

Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:

> ecvt/ecvt_r and I think the similar functions are completly broken
> if the ndigits parameter is greater then DBL_DIG (15).

It's not completely broken.  The standard say

	Converts value to a null-terminated string of ndigit digits (where
	ndigit is reduced to an unspecified limit determined by the precision
	of a double)

So, if anything is broken than that we currently do not reset ndigits
to a reasonable value.

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References:
- ecvt is completly broken
  - From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>

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