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> Thanks for the answer (and for djgpp, by the way)... I was partly 
> mislead by "the number of fraction digits for a floating point number 
> (max for g or G, actual for others)" in the online docs that made me 
> think that g and f differred only marginally with this respect, but I 
> now see that I got the worst possible choice of a test case...

The online docs aren't the latest, and there are a number of cases
where the docs are wrong.  The code tends to be correct, because that
we can compare against, say, linux.  Feel free to check out the CVS
sources and send in doc patches ;-)