Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtp47.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!meissner 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 Article-I.D.: rtp47.139 Posted: Wed Aug 14 17:16:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 16:32:54 EDT References: <505@brl-tgr.ARPA> <860@turtlevax.UUCP> Reply-To: meissner@rtp47.UUCP (Michael Meissner) Distribution: net Organization: Data General, RTP, NC Lines: 15 Keywords: ansi 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). -- Michael Meissner Data General ...{ ihnp4, decvax }!mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!meissner