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From: richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf == float?
Message-ID: <364@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Apr 88 20:59:03 GMT
References: <13065@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: richard@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Richard Tobin)
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In article <13065@brl-adm.ARPA> Leisner.Henr@Xerox.COM (Marty) writes:
>It is unreasonable to have to bring in 30k of floating point support to
>	printf("Error code = %d\n", error);

Especially when it would probably take less space to say
        fputs(error_message[error], stderr);

-- Richard



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