Failure of default_format_1.f90

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:36:40PM +0100, FX Coudert wrote:
> 
> As for the failure, you don't say which target you're talking about,  
> but I take it to be x86_64-freebsd. That means that writing denormals  
> and reading them back doesn't yield the same value. Now, this could  
> be because the field is not large enough, but then it'd be a generic  
> x86 failure, no freebsd specific (testcase works fine on x86_64- 
> linux). So, it's probably a problem with freebsd's printf().
> 

You will need to xfail the test on all operating systems
that use David Gay's code from netlib.

http://www.netlib.org/fp/index.html

in particular gdtoa.

The default widths for list-directed output should be
consistent with PRECISION().  Writing more digits than
the accuracy of the data type does not make sense.
Garbage out, garbage in.

-- 
Steve