Formatting a very large double crashes my system

Posted by Vadim Ogranovich-3 on May 08, 2002; 1:25pm
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Formatting-a-very-large-double-crashes-my-system-tp10089.html

Formatting a very large double crashes my system (gcc3.0.4, RH7.2). Below is
the program.
This is probably a bug in sprintf, but I was not able to confirm. Am I the
only lucky one?

Thanks, Vadim

#include <ql/quantlib.hpp>

using namespace std;
using namespace QuantLib;

int main()
{
  double x = 7.75285e+306;

  cout << DoubleFormatter::toString(x) << endl;

  return 0;
}

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