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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: 386BSD: cc1 got fatal signal 6
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 18:23:14 GMT
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References: <DERAADT.93Feb11012907@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> <C2EwAp.88K@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Feb16.215658.29848@runx.oz.au>
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In article <1993Feb16.215658.29848@runx.oz.au> bde@runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans) writes:
> Nope.  The definitive answer is that printf and atof/scanf are inaccurate
> and turn good constants into bad ones, and gcc trusts them too much.

OK, so what's the fix to that? Good conversion routines have been written
and implemented, it shouldn't be too hard to integrate one into printf/scanf.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   Oletko halannut suttasi tänään?
  'U`    
Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.