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[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / hints / os390.sh

diff --git a/hints/os390.sh b/hints/os390.sh
index 0273b32..8766f0b 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/os390.sh
+++ b/hints/os390.sh
@@ -203,9 +203,17 @@ EOWARN
     fi
 fi
 
+# Most of the time gcvt() seems to work fine but
+# sometimes values like 0.1, 0.2, come out as "10", "20",
+# a trivial Perl demonstration snippet is 'print 0.1'.
+# Yes, a flagrant bug, but unfortunately not trivial to
+# reproduce in C using gcvt().
+# sprintf() seems to get things right(er).
+d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*g",(n),(x))'
+
 cat >config.arch<<'__CONFIG_ARCH__'
 # The '-W 0,float(ieee)' cannot be used during Configure as ldflags.
 
-ldflags="$ldflags -W 0,float\(ieee\)"
+ccflags="$ccflags -W 0,float(ieee)"
 
 __CONFIG_ARCH__