>>>>> "David" == David N Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Does somebody know why SET-PRECISION has the different effects shown
> below in GForth 0.5.0?

> In MacOS X it behaves as I expected.  In Redhat Linux, it produces
> only the 17 digits that can be valid in IEEE 754 64-bit double
> precision.  I'm guessing some library difference in the 2 gcc's?  The
> MacOS X gcc is 2.95.2, and the Redhat gcc is 2.91.66.

Seems that REPRESENT uses either glibc's `ecvt' or simple emulation code
on platforms where it's not available.  (Have a look at `engin/ecvt.c')

David
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