http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48906
--- Comment #36 from Thomas Henlich <thenlich at users dot sourceforge.net> 2011-06-10 17:01:34 UTC --- (In reply to comment #34) > Additional note: The standard states: > > "Let N be the magnitude of the internal value" > > The internal value is to be used to determine the conversion to F formatting. > I > think this adds to my point. > > I wonder if the standards committee knew the thresholds selected do not have > an > exact binary representation so that the internal values will always be above > or > below it. Not always (e.g. 99.5 is the exact internal value), but it many cases, yes. This and other problems with G editing will be fixed in the standard soon, if all goes well. I helped to prepare a request for this, which has now been submitted: http://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/2011/11-174.txt
