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- From: hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: localeconv()
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.210929.21777@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 21:09:29 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.124114.5363@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul27.124114.5363@athena.mit.edu>, J.Jagger@sheffield-city-poly.ac.uk writes:
- |> Hi,
- |> I was messing around with locale.h and localeconv() does not
- |> appear to be in libc.a (or in any other .a file). I'm using the
- |> MCC 0.96c version if this is of any help. It is an ANSI function.
- |>
- |> Also I ran paranoia on Linux last night (it stresses the darker
- |> corner of maths implementations). There were two things it found.
- |> 1. (-0.0-----0e00) ^ (0.0-----0e00)
- |> yielded 0.0.....0e00 and not 1.0.....0e00
- |>
- |> 2. (2.0------0e00) ^ (1.0-----0e00)
- |> yielded 1.9-----9e00 and not 2.0-----0e00
- |> (important in financial calculations apparantly).
- |>
- |> Keep up the great work.
- |> JJ
- |>
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- locale stuffs are taken from glibc 1.03, which is incompleted.
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- H.J.
- Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.
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