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From: Radical NetSurfer <RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: PLEASE EXPLAIN v2.953
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:07:17 -0500
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Since you are up on this, PLEASE explain why the

%U  and %D mentioned in libc.txt (or libc.info)
when it is actually flagged as a non-existing entity...

What is/was the purpose of %D, %U ?

What I did was to attempt to convert those *.info
files into a more useful *.txt files (that was done long ago),
ALL material is in there, but apparently there are also high-bit
characters present as well and my eye is over-trained to ignore
areas of "garbage", which is why I missed what I needed.

'h', 'l', etc., are indeed mentioned!


On 19 Dec 2004 00:11:29 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
<broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:

>Radical NetSurfer <RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>
>[... much snipped ...]
>
>> What is this indicating?
>
>To put it bluntly: it indicates that you haven't read the fine manual
>on printf() with sufficient attention yet.  Please do so immediately.
>
>> %ld works, but get this, according to  'libc.txt' which describes the
>> library functions (by category, etc.) and looking at  
>>    printf
>
>There is no 'libc.txt' that is supposed to document the details of
>DJGPP's implementation of printf().  The main documentation is libc.info.
>
>> there is *NO* sign of &h,  no sign of 'l' as a long modifier,
>
>Huh?  What's this, then (quoted straight from 'info libc alpha printf':
>
>   *  An optional conversion qualifier, which may be `h' to specify
>     `short', `l' to specify long ints, or `L' to specify long doubles.
>     Long long type can be specified by `L' or `ll'.