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From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Strange problems with printf()
Date:	8 Jan 2005 19:27:19 GMT
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Samuel Lauber <sam124 AT operamail DOT com> wrote:

> int printf(char *, ...);

A side note: it's quite a bad idea to have prototypes of standard
library functions (like printf) explicitly appear in your source code
--- use #include <stdio.h> instead.

> int main(void)
> {
>      printf("%f\n", 1);
> }

> Compile it, and it would say `Unnormal'. Is this a bug?

It might be if it still did that after you replaced '1' with an actual
double, like 1.0 or 1.23456e78

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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