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Re: lib/56148: lib/libc/stdio/t_printf:snprintf_float test randomly fails




> On May 9, 2021, at 1:58 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> It isn't even a question of replacing gdtoa, the alternatives will very,
> very likely run into the same problem that the power-of-five tables are
> huge if pre-computed or require large stack space or allocations if
> computed dynamically. That's the nature of the problem.

I know; I mentioned gdtoa explicitly because it is using malloc for much more
than that (its bignums, strings etc. -- grep alloc /usr/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/*.c).

christos

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