[Mingw-users] long double, strange behaviour.

[Carlos G. Hasbún-C. <has...@ho...>]

I have being trying to printf a long double variable but have very strange numbers printed out to the console. Namely:

long double longDoubleDecimal = 9.9123480;

printf("Let's print a long double floating point number: %19G ", longDoubleDecimal);

prints to console:

-2.77594E-161

I am confused as to what is actually happening.

Any help is appreciated.
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