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> From: Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:59:59 +0200
> > 
> > For long doubles, the right format for debugging printf's is "%.19g".
>       ^^^^                                                     "%.19Lg"
> right?

Yes, I posted a correction.

> > It doesn't; it simply assumes that the format specifier tells the
> > truth.  That is, if you say "%f", the corresponding argument is a
> > double, and if you say "%Lf", it's a long double.
> so IMHO the libc info pages about printf/scanf are wrong.
> (at least for DJGPP + gcc)

I don't understand: where's the docs you cited wrong?

If you mean the `printf' docs, then you omitted a crucial part:

   *  An optional conversion qualifier, which may be `h' to specify
     `short', `l' to specify long ints, or `L' to specify long doubles.
     Long long type can be specified by `L' or `ll'.

That's why the description of FP formats says

> printf():
>     `e'
>     `E'
>           A floating point number (double or long double).

The `L' qualifier determines whether it's a double or a long double.