From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 22:41:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: The -W 0,float(ieee) and gcvt() are the bad combination.
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The -W 0,float(ieee) and gcvt() are the bad combination.

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diff --git a/hints/os390.sh b/hints/os390.sh
index 8766f0b..e85ebef 100644
--- a/hints/os390.sh
+++ b/hints/os390.sh
@@ -206,8 +206,7 @@ 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().
+# The -W 0,float(ieee) seems to be the switch breaking gcvt().
 # sprintf() seems to get things right(er).
 d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*g",(n),(x))'