Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #566 and simplify/improve flonum printing code

2013-12-01 Thread Peter Bex
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 11:31:31AM -0500, John Cowan wrote: > Peter Bex scripsit: > > > However, I've tested all three Windows builds, and they all behave > > equally well (or better) with s[n]printf() instead of gcvt(). We no > > longer have a MSVC build, so the original problem probably was th

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #566 and simplify/improve flonum printing code

2013-12-01 Thread John Cowan
Peter Bex scripsit: > However, I've tested all three Windows builds, and they all behave > equally well (or better) with s[n]printf() instead of gcvt(). We no > longer have a MSVC build, so the original problem probably was there, As of Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft deprecated all the functions in

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #566 and simplify/improve flonum printing code

2013-12-01 Thread Moritz Heidkamp
Hi Peter, Peter Bex writes: > > In order to fix #566, I decided it's much easier to rip out the > HAVE_GCVT definition in Cygwin. After testing on several platforms, > it turns out that gcvt() is really not required, and it's deprecated > by POSIX as well. So we should probably stop using it an

[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #566 and simplify/improve flonum printing code

2013-11-18 Thread Peter Bex
Hi all, In order to fix #566, I decided it's much easier to rip out the HAVE_GCVT definition in Cygwin. After testing on several platforms, it turns out that gcvt() is really not required, and it's deprecated by POSIX as well. So we should probably stop using it anyway; this also simplifies test