From: bc@freeuk.com   
      
   On 28/11/2025 00:39, Keith Thompson wrote:   
   > bart  writes:   
   >> On 27/11/2025 23:59, Keith Thompson wrote:   
   >>> bart  writes:   
   >>>> On 27/11/2025 10:43, David Brown wrote:   
   >>> [...]   
   >>>>> uint64_t get_exponent(double x) {   
   >>>>>        return ((union { double d; uint64_t u;}) { x }.u >> 52)   
   >>>>>                 & ((1ull << (62 - 52 + 1)) - 1);   
   >>>>> }   
   > [...]   
   >>> How exactly did clang and msvs express their dislike?  What versions   
   >>> are   
   >>> you using?   
   >>> On my systems, it works correctly with gcc 13.3.0, clang 18.1.3,   
   >>> tcc 0.9.27, Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 17.14.20.   
   >>> If your problem is that you're using older compilers that don't   
   >>> support   
   >>> compound literals, it would have saved some time if you had said so.   
   >   
   > Can you *please* do something about the way your newsreader   
   > (apparently Mozilla Thunderbird) mangles quoted text?  That first   
   > quoted line, starting with "> How exactly", would have been just   
   > 74 columns, but your newsreader folded it, making it more difficult   
   > to read.  It also deletes blank lines between paragraphs.   
   >   
   > I don't recall similar problems from other Thunderbird users.   
      
   I don't see anything amiss with quoted content in my own posts. My last   
   post looks like this to me:   
      
   https://github.com/sal55/langs/blob/master/tbird.png   
      
   In any case, I've no idea how to fix the problem, assuming it is at my end.   
      
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