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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2010-11-18 09:50:49 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2010-11-18 09:51:04 -0800
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od: fix bugs in displaying floating-point values
* NEWS: Describe patch. * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add ftoastr. * src/od.c: Include ftoastr.h, not float.h. (FLT_DIG, DBL_DIG): Remove. No need to verify LDBL_DIG. (FMT_BYTES_ALLOCATED): No need to worry about floating point now, since this format is no longer used for floating point. (PRINT_FIELDS): New macro, with most of the guts of the old PRINT_TYPE. (PRINT_TYPE): Rewrite to use PRINT_FIELDS. (PRINT_FLOATTYPE): New macro. This uses the new functions from ftoastr. (print_float, print_double, print_long_double): Reimplement using PRINT_FLOATTYPE. (decode_one_format): Calculate field widths based on ftoastr-supplied macros. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/od-float. * tests/misc/od-float: New file.
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* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+** Bug fixes
+
+ od now prints floating-point numbers without losing information, and
+ it no longer omits spaces between floating-point columns in some cases.
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.7 (2010-11-13) [stable]