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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: `enquire' from GCC 2
Date: 11 Apr 1993 21:59:52 -0400
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Well, the popular opinion seems to be that it fails because atof() is
not accurate.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I have yet to see the current atof() give me
the wrong answer.  Rather, printf() is broken.  I'm working on fixing
it.

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