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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 08:48:32 +0200
From: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT vanholder AT falconsoft DOT be>
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Subject: Re: iostream function "form" in DJGPP V3
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"Günter R" wrote:
> 
> in V2 of DJGPP this worked as expected:
> 
> #include <iostream.h>
> cout.form ("%8.3f\n", a); ....
> 
> in V3 it does not work anymore.
> The error message is:
> Error: "form" undeclared ....
> 
> I'm working with DJGPP V3.0 and RHIDE 1.4.9
> 
> Thanx

Note: it's GCC v3.0, NOT DJGPP v3.0.
DJGPP is the entire environment, NOT the compiler.

As for form(), it was a GNU extension that has now
been removed for ANSI compliance.  You'll have to
rewrite your output using C++ syntax:

// Note: no .h! - iostream.h is not ANSI and will likely
// be removed in future versions of gcc
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
...
cout << setwidth(8) << setprecision(3) << a << endl;

or use a buffer and sprintf:

char outbuf[16] = { "" );
sprintf (outbuf, "%8.3f", a);
cout << outbuf << endl;