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From: Leisner.Henr@Xerox.COM (Marty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: printf == float?
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Date: 21 Apr 88 21:54:28 GMT
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A number of C compilers (aztec for example) have a reasonable strategy for the
float/printf problem.

There are two versions of printf -- one in mlib and one  in clib.  If you're
program uses floats, you gotta link in m.lib -- if you never use floats, the
c.lib version of printf has judicious ifdefs around the floating point
conversions.

Seems reasonable.

It is unreasonable to have to bring in 30k of floating point support to
	printf("Error code = %d\n", error);


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