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From: meissner@rtp47.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: re: how has C bitten you?
Message-ID: <139@rtp47.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 17:16:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 17:16:40 1985
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In article <860@turtlevax.UUCP> ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) writes:
>
>Some implementations of printf intrepret %E and %G to mean "use 'E'
>rather than 'e'".  Similarly, %X means "use the character set
>[0123456789ABCDEF] rather than [0123456789abcdef] to print hexadecimal
>numbers."  If you want to print out a long using cap hex, you would
>use the format specifier "%lX".
>
>Does anyone know what the proposed ANSI standard says about this?
>
	ANSI requires this behavior (as does system III, V, V.2, IEEE P1003,
	and /usr/group).
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	Michael Meissner
	Data General
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