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- From: watzka@stat.uni-muenchen.de (Kurt Watzka)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C type question
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 12:51:23 GMT
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
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- Kenn@owl-uk.co.uk (Ken Nicolson) writes:
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- >ua302aa@sun2.lrz-muenchen.de (Kurt Watzka) wrote:
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- >>What does your documentation for printf() say. It should say
- >>"%Lf"!
- > ^^
-
- I wrote it as an aswer to a question on printing long doubles!
-
- >Is there a reason for using capital-ell instead of lowercase-ell for
- >long ints or floats? My compiler documentation says either is
- >acceptable, so is it just for readability since with a Sans-Serif
- >font, "l" looks very like an "I"?
-
- Your compiler documentation is _not_ a reliable source for
- information on format strings, obviously. You _need_ a capital-ell
- if you want to print a "long double"!
-
- Kurt
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