possible snprintf() regression in 3.3.2
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Nov 24 09:28:13 GMT 2021
On Nov 24 18:14, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:52:04 +0900
> Takashi Yano wrote:
> > The printed value is still something wrong...
> > sqrt(2)*1e70 should be an integer value.
>
> I mean...
>
> sqrt(2)*1e70 is actually not an integer, however, double has mantissa
> of only 52 bit. So, (double value)*(5^70*2^70) should be an integer.
The conversion is a bit inexact, I guess, but that's another problem
of this old ldto, right?
Corinna
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