From: Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com   
      
   bart  writes:   
   > 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.   
      
   My apologies, the problem doesn't appear to be on your end.   
      
   I saved your post from my newsreader (Gnus), and the quoted text   
   was correctly formatted in the saved copy.  The lines were not   
   unevenly wrapped, and blank lines between paragraphs were preserved.   
   The formatting is messed up when I view the article in Gnus, but ok   
   when I view it in Thunderbird.   
      
   Relevant headers in your article are:   
      
       Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed   
       Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit   
       ...   
       User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird   
       ...   
       Content-Language: en-GB   
      
   I think the "format=flowed" might be an issue (I suggest it's   
   not ideal for Usenet posts), but yours aren't the only posts that   
   use that.   
      
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