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  1. Path: mail2news.demon.co.uk!genesis.demon.co.uk
  2. From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: C type question
  5. Date: Fri, 09 Feb 96 01:18:11 GMT
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  8. Message-ID: <823828691snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
  9. References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960202131027.20090A-100000@sun19.cs.cuhk.hk> <4et4rt$4f9@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> <31187b6d.1859912@hector> <4fcrkb$qur@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
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  14.  
  15. In article <4fcrkb$qur@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
  16.            watzka@stat.uni-muenchen.de "Kurt Watzka" writes:
  17.  
  18. >Your compiler documentation is _not_ a reliable source for 
  19. >information on format strings, obviously. You _need_ a capital-ell
  20. >if you want to print a "long double"!
  21.  
  22. Compiler documentation documents the compiler. It is dangerous to
  23. assume that it documents the language. Of course good documentation should
  24. document what are compiler specific extensions but 'should' and 'do' are
  25. two wildly different concepts.
  26.  
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  29. Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
  30. Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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