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Re: strange printf failures
- To: Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
- Subject: Re: strange printf failures
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 27 May 1998 12:22:27 -0700
- Cc: Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>, libc-hacker@gnu.org
- References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980527141954.20684b-100000@vespucci.advicom.net>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com> writes:
> Unless this code has changed substantially since 1.09, this routine an
> enormous amount of stack space.
It changed a lot (I rewrote it completely) but it possibly still uses
large stack space.
> I was investigating the use of glibc 1.0[89] for embedded systems
> use and discovered that printing an FP number required over 40K of
> stack space for a simple test case.
If you print large number (large exponents) this is true. I simply
have not yet found the drive to change this. It would require several
careful changes and might effect the so far 100% accuracy.
-- Uli
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