? write and read double as text reliably

[Stephen Linam]

In article <17815 at brahms.udel.edu>, apperson at brahms.udel.edu (Apperson H
Johnson) writes:
|> What is the best way to write double precision numbers if
|> 1. they are to be read by people
|> 2. they are to bre read by a C program, and MUST preserve their exact
values.

I don't have a general answer to your question, but I did find a
bug in AIX 3.1 sprintf() which is causing the specific test case
to fail -- the number emited by the sprintf should be 0.12345678901234548.

I'll open a defect report to fix it in the next release.  Please call in
an APAR to get the fix before then.

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