Re: *printf: recognize non-IEEE numbers

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> On i386, x86_64, ia64, the 'long double' format has an explicitly represented
> most significant mantissa bit. This has the consequence that some bit patterns
> in a 'long double' are not covered by IEEE 754. *printf better prints these
> numbers as NaN (rather than printing some of them as finite numbers, or
> crashing on some of them, like glibc does [1]).
>
> This changes the gnulib *printf-posix modules to recognize this case and
> provide a workaround.
>
> Jim is interested in using the *printf-posix modules but wants no big code
> imports on glibc-2.6 systems. Therefore I have tied the recognition of this
> workaround to a modules named 'printf-safe'. If you don't want it, simply
> pass the option  --avoid=print-safe  to gnulib-tool.
>
> Bruno
>
> [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4586
>     The report is for ia64, but the same test program crashes also on i386.

Thanks for doing that.  But when you put it that way, perhaps
some glibc-post-2.6 release would be a more reasonable target.