Dennis Clarke wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Ming Kin Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a feeling that Sun has abandoned maintaining Solaris, and shifted > > its resources to OpenSolaris. Well, that's good news to people here, I > > guess. > > So, can I discuss things about Solaris 10 here? How about something about > > Solaris 10's C library? Can I ask a question why a certain library > > function does not work properly? Can I report a bug here? Currently there > > does not appear to be a way to report Solaris' bugs in Sun's website > > anymore. > > > > just a guess, are you referring to an issue with strtod(3C) in > C99/SUSv3 mode NOT being able to handle hexadecimal strings ?
Erm... the hexfloat format, e.g. ... -- snip -- $ printf "%a\n" 0.1 0x1.999999999999999999999999999ap-04 -- snip -- ... is AFAIK part of C99 standard and should work on Solaris. If it does not work then this is a bug... ---- Bye, Roland P.S.: Seting Reply-To: to OpenSolaris Code mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
