Re: [patch 2/2] Wrap-up expression support for DFP.

Andreas Schwab
2007-12-21T16:19:30Z

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:49:28 -0200
>> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
>>
>> + sprintf (buffer, "%Lf", value_as_double (from));
>
> If we must live with going through the printed representation, at the
> very least please use "%.30Lf", so as not to lose precision due to the
> default number of significant digits produced under "%Lf", arbitrarily
> chosen by the libc implementation.

Shouldn't that be better "%.30Lg"?

Andreas.

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