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From: rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Examine and ExNext return codes
Summary: yes, indeed...
Keywords: ints, Examine
Message-ID: <1088@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 88 19:38:52 GMT
References: <246@dsacg2.UUCP> <247@dsacg2.UUCP> <5596@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <5596@cbmvax.UUCP>, higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom MKT) writes:
> I think Rob got carried away with "l" because they empirically worked. :-)

Actually the "l' (small L) prepending that I had done shows my early
involvement with the Amiga OS, in that the printf built into the ROM
(or WCS), and accessible by linking in amiga.lib first, requires
all parameters to be longs.  Thus I still tend to use the 'l' most
of the time.  I so seldom want to print something containing a floating
point number that the limits of the ROM/WCS printf dont get in the way,
so this way the code is portable between compilers and link-libs.

By the way, Hiya Paul!

Rob Peck