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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>, 	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] Wrap-up expression support for DFP.
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jer6hgnhq2.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uzlw4hw5f.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 21 Dec 	2007 18\:04\:12 +0200")

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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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-21 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-20  5:55 [patch 0/2] Complete expression support for Decimal Floating Point Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-12-20  5:55 ` [patch 1/2] Recognize DFP types in casts Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-12-20 15:24   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-12-20 16:48     ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-12-20 16:54       ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-12-20 16:57       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-12-20 17:21         ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-12-20  8:03 ` [patch 2/2] Wrap-up expression support for DFP Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-12-21 16:12   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-21 16:30     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-12-21 16:38       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-27  7:40     ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-12-29 11:21       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-02 20:07         ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-01-05 11:30           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-07 16:20             ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-01-07 17:09               ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-01-07 21:09               ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-07 22:39                 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-12-28  6:16     ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-12-29 12:53       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-02 16:42         ` Thiago Jung Bauermann

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