On Sat, Aug 4, 2018, 18:19 Martin Sebor <mse...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/02/2018 01:46 PM, Martin Sebor wrote: > > The recently added test gcc.dg/torture/builtin-sprintf.c > > to verify that the sprintf result computed by GCC matches > > libc's for Infinity and NaN has been failing on AIX which > > formats NaN as either QNaN or SNaN, contrary to C/POSIX > > requirements. The attached tweak adjusts the result > > computed by GCC to include the AIX format. If there are > > no objections I'll commit the tweak later this week and > > backport it to GCC 8 the next. > > I have committed this change as r263312. > > In the longer term, I think it might be best to introduce an OS > target hook to describe sprintf implementation-defined details > like the format of infinite values (i.e., inf or infinity, nan > or qnan/snan), and perhaps also %p format and anything else that > might be relevant. >
Another option would be to calculate the length of NAN string at gcc build time. Set the optimization constant to the value returned by sprintf (os libc function, not compiler inlined value) while building gcc. David >
