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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: ansi printf questions
Message-ID: <9594@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Feb 89 04:42:46 GMT
References: <15159@oberon.USC.EDU> <9591@smoke.BRL.MIL> <372@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <372@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>%i is the same as %d, according to the May draft.

Yes, it's the same in the proposed standard submitted to X3.
Undoubtedly this was added simply for symmetry with the scanf %i.