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

[Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/56148; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
 lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
 Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: lib/56148: lib/libc/stdio/t_printf:snprintf_float test randomly
 fails
Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 14:11:11 -0400

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 > 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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