Re: new snapshot

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
...
>> 2007-11-01  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
>>
>>      Adjust a seq subtest not to depend on the vagaries of floating point.
>>      * tests/misc/seq (float-3): Use 10.94 as the endpoint, not 10.95,
>>      since 10.95 was precisely in the middle of the interval, and with
>>      a %.1f format could map to either 10.9 or 11.0.
>>      Reported by Mike Frysinger
>
> I agree with the work around, but that's one buggy
> printf rounding implementation if you ask me.
> Where was this?

Hi Pádraig,

I think Mike's was on some ppc-based system, but I think
the cause was a buggy test, not a buggy printf function.
Did you see Andreas' messages in this thread?

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/11713