From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   dxf  writes:   
   >If the plan is multiple tasks should do fp output then things   
   >such as REPRESENT's buffer would probably need protecting too.   
      
   REPRESENT uses a buffer that the caller provides, so its interface is   
   compatible with thread-safety.  However, REPRESENT is obviously based   
   on ecvt(), which is not thread-safe.  But fortunately, if you use   
   glibc, there is ecvt_r(), which is thread-safe.   
      
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