Again problem with atof / sscanf / strtof and float's range

David McCullough david_mccullough at au.securecomputing.com
Mon Dec 11 00:24:52 UTC 2006


Jivin Rob Landley lays it down ...
> On Friday 08 December 2006 11:04 am, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 08 December 2006 06:17, Mathias.Krause at de.telex.com wrote:
> > > I am running uCLinux (dist 20060803) with kernel 2.4 and it's uClibc
> > 
> > it's an old uClibc to be sure
> 
> Clarifying: uCLinux has been known to use old versions of uClibc and BusyBox.  
> Just because they built it in August of this year doesn't mean they were 
> using an up-to-date version of the package when they did so.  (They often 
> heavily modify their packages, so resyncing with the upstream version can be 
> a bit of a pain for them.  The downside is you wind up with this kind of 
> problem, which is quite possibly fixed in the current tree of uClibc, but not 
> the one uCLinux is using.)

Ok,  it's old,  in fact its very old (0.9.27).

uClibc is not that heavily modified in the dist and quite a number of
people have updated there dist to a newer version, you can even run one
in parallel to the existing versions if you like.

Will it get updated to something newer ?  yes.  When ? I don't know.
Why isn't it updated regularly ? The usual reasons.

Cheers,
Davidm

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