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Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'...

From "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'...
Date 2015-07-22 15:43 -0700
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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References <moorva$su7$1@speranza.aioe.org> <87mvyn51bm.fsf@bsb.me.uk><mop2i6$bkq$1@speranza.aioe.org> <lnfv4f26t4.fsf@kst-u.example.com>

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> "Keith Thompson"  wrote in message 
> news:lnfv4f26t4.fsf@kst-u.example.com...

> > "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> writes:
[...]
> >> It looks like MSVC simply has a bug.  You could calculate the number of
> >> digits you need but that would be fiddly to get right in every single
> >> case.
> >
> > Right. FWIW, %a does not work on MSVC for sscanf always returns zero.

> Does MSVC just not implement %a?  Did you try changing to %la (you may
> have already answered that).

> Try this test program:
[...]
> On my system, the output is:

> in  = 1.0123456789 = 0x1.0329161f1f56cp+0
> buf = "0x1.0329161f1f56cp+0"
> sscanf returned 1
> out = 1.0123456789 = 0x1.0329161f1f56cp+0
> in == out

> What output do you get using MSVC?  If it's significantly different,
> there may well be a bug in MSVC (presumably in its runtime library).

I am getting:
________________________________________
in  = 1.0123456789 = 0x1.032916p+0
buf = "0x1.032916p+0"
sscanf returned 0
out = 1.0123456789 = 0x1.032916p+0
in == out
________________________________________


If I change out to 0.0, I get:
________________________________________
in  = 1.0123456789 = 0x1.032916p+0
buf = "0x1.032916p+0"
sscanf returned 0
out = 0.0000000000 = 0x0.000000p+0
in != out
________________________________________

sscanf is failing over hear on MSVC 12.

DAMN!

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Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 12:46 -0700
  Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-22 16:19 -0400
    Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 13:49 -0700
      Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-22 14:01 -0700
      Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-22 17:18 -0400
        Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 14:22 -0700
  Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-22 13:40 -0700
    Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 14:01 -0700
      Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-22 14:12 -0700
        Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 14:20 -0700
          Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 14:24 -0700
          Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-22 21:30 +0000
            Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 14:39 -0700
          Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-07-22 19:49 -0600
  Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-22 22:28 +0100
    Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 14:34 -0700
      Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-22 14:58 -0700
        Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 15:43 -0700
        Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 15:45 -0700
        Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 15:51 -0700
          Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-22 18:21 -0500
            Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-22 16:58 -0700
        Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-22 16:52 -0700
        Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-22 17:08 -0700
      Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-23 00:01 +0100
        Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-22 19:40 -0700
          Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-22 22:32 -0700
          Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-23 11:07 +0100
            Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-23 11:25 +0100
              Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-24 11:44 -0700
            Re: Floating point to string, and back via `%a'... "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-07-24 11:47 -0700

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