bug#54785: for floating point, printf should use double like in C instead of long double

Vincent Lefevre wrote in : $ zsh -fc '/usr/bin/printf "%a\n" $((43./2**22))' 0xa.c00025cp-20 instead of 0xa.cp-20 To summarize, this test case is: printf '%a\n' 1.0251998901367188e-05 and the problem is that converting 1.0251998901367188e-05 to long

bug#50889: Please improve the documentation for install --compare (-C)

On 29/09/2021 12:09, Ian Cross via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: Hi, A while back a request was made to improve the documentation of the `install --compare` cmd: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-09/msg00029.html It seems the wording in `coreutils.texi` has been updated