Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value

[Andreas Schwab]

Martin Koeppe <address@hidden> writes:

> The Interix libc is built with MSVC. MSVC has no long double data
> type. Ok, it understands "long double", but always maps that to 64-bit
> double. So libc's printf(), when it sees "%Lg", expects 64-bit double.
>
> But Interix also has gcc. gcc OTOH has 80 bit long double (stored are 12
> bytes). When I build seq with gcc, for the "%Lg" arg 12 bytes are
> reserved. This will crash then.
>
> I don't know how to fix that...

The right fix is to use a ABI compatible compiler.  If gcc cannot
generate code that is compatible with the system library it is a bug
that should be reported.

Andreas.

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