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Subject: Re: cout ignores the last 11 bits of long double
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> From: Dennis Yelle <dennis51 AT jps DOT net>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:12:01 -0700
> 
> i: 51:
> hex:    3fffb89ba24891f7b800
> cout:   1.4422495703074085238171164746745489537716
> printf: 1.4422495703074085238171164746745489537720
> 
> i: 52:
> hex:    3fffb89ba24891f7b400
> cout:   1.4422495703074083017725115496432408690453
> printf: 1.4422495703074084127948140121588949114080
> -------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> i: 53:
> hex:    3fffb89ba24891f7b600
> cout:   1.4422495703074085238171164746745489537716
> printf: 1.4422495703074084683059652434167219325900
> -------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> i: 54:
> hex:    3fffb89ba24891f7b500
> cout:   1.4422495703074085238171164746745489537716
> printf: 1.4422495703074084405503896277878084219990
> -------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Notice that the cout result for i: 53 is the same
> as for i: 51, but the printf result is different.
> 
> It looks like cout operator<< ignores the last 11 bits of a 
> long double.

I'm guessing that cout somehow converts the argument to double
internally, which gives only about 16.5 digits of precision.

Anyway, bugs in libtsdc++ should be posted elsewhere.  DJGPP doesn't
maintain that library, only ports it.