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From: CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: log10(8)
Message-ID: <90058.153054CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 90 20:30:54 GMT
References: <3244@servax0.essex.ac.uk> <1460@amethyst.math.arizona.edu>
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In article <MEISSNER.90Feb27104552@curley.osf.org>, meissner@osf.org (Michael
Meissner) says:
>
>| Try printf"%lf",l);  after all l is declared to be a double!!!!!!!!
>
>Sigh.  Printf is a varargs function.  This means that there is no way
>a 'float' can be passed to it.  Thus %f and %lf are synomous.....

As I don't have access to my copy of K&R2 until Monday, could you please point
me to a specific reference?

BTW:  I know of at least one compiler that *does* pass floats as floats, not
      doubles.


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