Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problem with Turbo C and floating point
Message-ID: <6216@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 17 Aug 88 22:49:02 GMT
References: <1817@akgua.ATT.COM> <477@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <477@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
>ANSI seems to have decided, in its' infinite wisdom, that reading floats
>(as opposed to doubles) is a no-no.

Wrong.  ANSI scanf accepts %f (float), %lf (double), and %Lf (long double).
This is compatible with pre-ANSI usage, of course.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint