Bug 2908

Summary:	improper printing of hexadecimal floating point numbers
Product:	glibc	Reporter:	Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5>
Component:	libc	Assignee:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	glibc-bugs
Priority:	P2	Flags:	fweimer: security-
Version:	2.4
Target Milestone:	---
Host:		Target:
Build:		Last reconfirmed:

Description Ram Gupta 2006-07-12 14:32:42 UTC

This function works incorrectly in case when argument is of
long double type and precision is set to zero.
For example, call
   printf( "%.0LA", ( long double ) 0x0.FFFFp+0 );
will output string "0XP+8" with character number 1 missing
between "X" and "P" instead of "0X1P+0".

Comment 1 Ulrich Drepper 2006-08-03 09:24:55 UTC

Actually, the output contains something between X and P.  It's '\1', not '1'. 
That's fixed now.