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Re: arch-independent glibc printf segfault for "special" long double val


From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
Subject: Re: arch-independent glibc printf segfault for "special" long double values
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 21:03:41 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Fri, 2007-06-08 11:58:10 -0700, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw <address@hidden> writes:
> > That would even mean that feeding the same bytes into GNU od, you may
> > get two different results on two different architectures because of
> > architecture-dependant data parsing?
> 
> Yes, that has always been true.

(The above stanca is about printing data stuffed into `od' as float
(or any other more complex data type than integers of different
length) values, which depend on the machine's local representation of
floats.)

MfG, JBG

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