Tim> Everyone! Run this program under current CVS: Tim> x = 0.0 Tim> print "%.17g" % -x Tim> print "%+.17g" % -x Tim> What do you get? % ./python Python 2.1b2 (#2, Mar 21 2001, 08:43:16) [GCC 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
x = 0.0 print "%.17g" % -x -0 print "%+.17g" % -x -0
% ldd ./python libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4001a000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4002d000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x40031000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40034000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40052000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) libc appears to actually be GNU libc 2.1.3.