Allen Smith guessed: > IP27? R10000 chip, I'm guessing? Right on both counts. Processor 0: 250 MHZ IP27 CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.4 FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.4 > -DHAS_LDBL_SPRINTF_BUG but not -DHAS_LDBL_SPRINTF_BUG_LESS1? > Interesting. I've seen this here also with an R5000 machine (non-64-bit), > but hadn't had time to check things out further. I've done some > rearrangements on the local smoketest configuration files and will see what > happens I tried turning off -DHAS_LDBL_SPRINTF_BUG and all that did was generate an *additional* failure from sprintf. Didn't try -DHAS_LDBL_SPRINTF_BUG_LESS1, perhaps I'll give that a shot.