Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:08:11 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:

> The difference between f and F is that:
>   f prints: inf or infinity and nan.
>   F prints: INF or INFINITY and NAN.

Ah, yes.

> IIRC, libc implementation always prints NaN and Inf.

Yes.  A change to that would require a simultaneous change to the Cygnus 
test suite in djtstNNN.zip, though.

> As Charles Sandman suggested some time ago, I have commented out (#if 0)
> the O conversion specifier from the sources and retained unchanged everything
> else to keep BORLAND/MSC compatibility.

Personally, I'd leave O alone.  I don't like removing existing 
functionality without a very good reason.