schroder@papaya.bbn.com (03/17/90)
We frequently use multitasking, with modest stacks allocated from the heap. We recently discovered that "sprintf()" in Sun release 4.x was overrunning the stack -- using **over 20k of stack** to convert little numbers like 0.334 and so forth. A little research with adb uncovered: binary_to_decimal_integer: linkw a6,#-0x308c // 12,428 bytes binary_to_decimal_fraction: linkw a6,#-0x3080 // 12,416 bytes unpacked_to_decimal: linkw a6,#-0x15b0 // 5,552 bytes Does anyone out there know why it takes over 12K to convert a floating point number? Release 3.5 convert a float in under 900 bytes. :-) Regards, Ken