From: Jens Bischoff <J DOT Bischoff AT airbus DOT dasa DOT de>
Message-Id: <9706051009.AA07816@hpaxe.bre.da>
Subject: Re: Possible bug?
To: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M) (Ruiter de M)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 97 12:09:03 MESZ
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <5n3i63$145@star.cs.vu.nl>; from "Ruiter de M" at Jun 4, 97 11:05 am
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
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> 
> Simun Mikecin (sime AT fly DOT cc DOT fer DOT hr) wrote:
> : Philip Ibis (pibis AT host DOT hawk DOT igs DOT net) wrote:
> : :   double n;
> : :   memset(&n,0xFF,sizeof(double));  /* contrived, sure */
> : :   printf("%f\n",n);
> :             ^^
> : Have you tried using %lf here?
> 
> Why? According to the docs, %hf is for floats, %f is for doubles and
> %lf is for long doubles (what's that? same as doubles, for DJGPP?).
> Scanf differs.
> 

For information: On a HP-UX 715/80 workstation I get

-?.000000
 
with both HP-C and GNU-C. The format statement (%f / %lf) doesn't matter.
 
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