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Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 10:05:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: _doprnt and NaNs
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> If indeed there's no format specifier for a float (I don't have time
> to dig into C9x, but I thought there was something like %hf, no?),

I was hoping for '%hf', but there isn't one. 'L' is the only conversion width
specifier for floating-point types. It seems like a strange omission to me.
Maybe it'll be in C09 (C2009)?

> then it would at least be nice to be able to distinguish between a
> double and a long double NaN.

That's possible.

> So how about some code that would detect NaNs early on, before they
> are converted to a long double?

Yep, I'll add that.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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