On 06/18/2012 06:27 PM, John Spencer wrote: > easy: add a check for the invalid LD bit representations
How does one do that, exactly? I thought the whole point of the proposed exercise was that code must be portable to any standard C implementation. So, where's the portable code to do what you're proposing? > who uses LD80 values in files anyway ? Lots of people. A quick Google search found "I have a binary file of long double values created with fwrite in C" <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2586295/importing-c-written-binary-files-into-matlab> I'm sure one can find more examples. > neither me nor paul were talking about printf(). No, I was talking about printf. > you're forcing your printf replacement on implementations There's no force here. The process is entirely voluntary.
