Re: [Chicken-janitors] #691: number/string-conversion tests fail on Windows (mingw-msys)

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#691: number/string-conversion tests fail on Windows (mingw-msys)
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  Reporter:  felix           |       Owner:  felix                   
      Type:  defect          |      Status:  assigned                
  Priority:  major           |   Milestone:  4.8.0                   
 Component:  core libraries  |     Version:  4.7.x                   
Resolution:                  |    Keywords:  number-string conversion
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Comment(by felix):

 Replying to [comment:7 sjamaan]:
 > I found
 
[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200901252004.31704.keithmarshall%40users.sourceforge.net&forum_name
 =mingw-users some info about mingw's support for these functions]. They
 say msvcr80.dll comes from Visual Studio 2005 or later.  If you're using
 something older it doesn't work.  I guess that means Windows XP doesn't
 include it?

 Right, MSVCRT60/70 would not support it.

 >
 > Apparently adding "PRINTF_EXPONENT_DIGITS=2" to the environment also
 works. Maybe we can just put a setenv() call to the initialization
 function instead (hopefully that's picked up anytime and not just at the
 start of the program....).

 Ugh. That's ugly. Can't we just accept that Windows is a piece-of-shit
 operating system and simply skip these tests on that platform?

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