arch-independent glibc printf segfault for "special" long double values

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 10:48:02 +0200, Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> This started with Bruno Haible's bug report:
> 
>     > printf crashes on some 'long double' values
>     > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4586
> 
> I objected to the closure of that BZ:
> 
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/12394
> 
> For example, it can cause GNU od to segfault.
[...]
> On x86_64, you need to use -tf16 to get the long double interpretation.
> On an 686-based system, it's a 12-byte quantity, so you need "-tf12".
> Both of these systems are using libc-2.5:
[...]

With -tf16, what binary float representation is used? 754? 854? One of
the VAX formats? IBM? The local representation of a "long double"?

That would even mean that feeding the same bytes into GNU od, you may
get two different results on two different architectures because of
architecture-dependant data parsing?

MfG, JBG

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