Re: [Mingw-users] Outputting long doubles: ldtoa?

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Hi mingw users and developers,

Windows' printf() doesn't support long double I/O. printf() is used
for I/O in GCC's libgfortran (the Fortran runtime library), and for
this reason we currently have disallowed long doubles in the GNU
Fortran compiler (gfortran). I'd be happy to work around this by using
any other library function available for long double I/O, such as
ldtoa(), which Danny Smith suggested to me in the GCC bugzilla entry
for this problem (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23138):

"mingw has an implementation of _IO_ldtoa() and _IO_ldtostr(), based
on Stephen Moshier's ioldoubl package, that could be used.  Currently,
the ldtoa function is not exposed, but there is no reason why it
couldn't be."

So I guess what I'm asking is: could ldtoa be exposed, please?

Thanks for considering this issue,
FX