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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf: should %f round ???
Keywords: Turbo C version 1.5 printf frustration
Message-ID: <12645@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 88 02:45:24 GMT
References: <7916@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <7916@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ajmyrvold@violet.waterloo.edu
>(Alan Myrvold) writes:
>I feel deeply that the only REASONABLE behaviour for printf is to
>round to the precision specified - but is this behaviour spelled
>out anywhere?

Yes:

May 13, 1988 draft proposed ANS X3J11, p. 130, \S 4.9.6.1:

    f ... The value is rounded to the appropriate number of digits.
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