sprintf bugs with floating point and field specifiers?

[Matt Lee]

Hi Dave,

Same result with CVS HEAD. This was my configure line,

configure --prefix=${PPC_RELDIR} --target=powerpc-eabi -v --disable-multilib

Should I be configuring something differently?

thanks,
Vasanth

On 9/6/06, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> On 06 September 2006 00:10, Matt Lee wrote:
>
> > I am seeing some bugs with Newlib sprintf and floating point format
> > specifiers. Specifically, the following bits of code work incorrectly,
>
> > Output On Xilinx PowerPC 405 platform,
> >
> > +00
> > 0000
> > +000
> >
> > while on desktop Linux I get,
> >
> > +00.0
> > 00000
> > +0000
>
>   On current cygwin, I get
>
> dk@rainbow /artimi/software> ./foo.exe
> +00.0
> 00000
> +0000
> dk@rainbow /artimi/software>
>
> > I have tried both Newlib 1.9.0 and 1.14.0 and see the same behavior. I
> > am running a powerpc-eabi toolchain with Newlib configured for
> > floating point support.
> >
> > I found a few email trails, that seem to discuss related issues but
> > were not really the same things? I will try to debug _dtoa_r() and
> > cvt(), but wanted to know if this is known behavior.
>
>   Well, we do know that bugs crop up in the dtoa stuff every now and again on
> odd corner cases.  Can you reproduce this if you build newlib from the current
> CVS HEAD?
>
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
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