From: sl AT psycode DOT com DOT REMOVE_THIS
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: long double library for 2.02
Date: 31 Oct 1998 06:43:49 GMT
Organization: http://www.supernews.com, The World's Usenet: Discussions Start Here
Lines: 16
Message-ID: <iCdMCj1ZQ5j2-pn2-8HzJJdyoffzF@a9-p2.mtl.Generation.NET>
References: <199810302031 DOT PAA03525 AT delorie DOT com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.205.70.101
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: 909816229 ZCZSLWF4G4665CDCDC usenet52.supernews.com
X-Complaints-To: newsabuse AT supernews DOT com
X-Newsreader: ProNews/2 Version 1.50 Beta 1
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:30:56, Stephen L Moshier <moshier AT mediaone DOT net>
wrote:

> 
> simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2tk/
> smldbl11.zip B     92,314 981029 Steve Moshier's long double library for 2.02
> 
> This archive contains C source and object files to improve floating
> point printf and scanf accuracy of the DJGPP C library (version 2.01
> or 2.02).  With this change, the I/O accuracy passes tests for
> compliance with IEEE 754 and 854 standards.

	I'm just wondering.. Why isn't this implemented directly into DJGPP 
2.02 in order to comply with the standard?

Gili