Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.lightlink.com!news.ripco.com!news.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!posts.news.sonic.net!nnrp1.nntp.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4E62888D.4060306@bitblocks.com> Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:05:33 -0700 From: Bakul Shah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! References: <4E61B30F.5020508@bitblocks.com> <4E626B94.1020203@bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 Organization: Sonic.Net NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 Sep 2011 20:05:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 29e67838.news.sonic.net X-Trace: DXC=;Y2V^XDKOGLOimm<`@Q@IDm4K\QM1CV^@1OYf0H`?;XA4Y4]D43nOIBU[Zjk:d[l;FGlhbOYV7YNM X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.arch:3420 On 9/3/11 11:18 AM, nmm1@cam.ac.uk wrote: > In article<4E626B94.1020203@bitblocks.com>, > Bakul Shah wrote: >> >> The printf(3) man pages on BSD/Linux/OS X say the function is standard >> compliant but I could not locate this flag in C89, C99 or C1X. So this >> is probably originally a glibc extension. Nick is (half) right. > > Sigh. I see that I need to give an elementary lesson on how ISO > language standardisation works. How do you think languages get extended? While people like you just whine, someone actually goes and implements a useful feature. If it is found to be useful to a lot of people, it might even get standardized. The fact it is available so widely should be seen as a positive. Most of us don't have a need for maximal portability and don't care if our program runs on a z80 as well as the biggest supercomputer so the information may still be useful to people. You were of course right the ' flag is not in Ansi C. That (half) was a silly joke not worth explaining. But I also added it to see what reaction it will provoke from you. Sorry about that:-)