Re: Wrong Description from NSNumber

[Gerrit Van Dyk]

>I have finished porting our backend system to gnustep. Our system makes use
>of NSNumber's description method quite a lot. I am sorry to say but this
>returns total garbage from an implementation point of view. If I construct
a
>number from a float ie [NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.5] the description
method
>returns "0.0000000" which is definitely not 1.5. If I construct a number
>from a short ie [NSNumber numberWithShort:25] the description method
returns
>"-1073807335". 

After futher investigation I found that numberWithFloat: does indeed work
correctly, I initially did this in gdb and it seems that something went
wrong there. The numberWithShort: does give wrong results.

I did the following:

str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%hd",25];
printf("%s",[str cString]);

This yielded:
-1073807335

printf("%hd",25); yielded:
25

The %hd i took from the NSNumber descriptionWithLocale: method.

Where can I find futher information on this, I am temporarily changing the
formatting in NSNumber to be %d instead of %hd.

Regards
Gerrit van Dyk
 
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