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On 08/01/2012 11:12 AM, TheGunslinger wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:02:01 -0500, TheGunslinger
> <mikiesrunsbaal.sec@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:58:31 -0400, Eric Sosman
>> <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/1/2012 10:49 AM, TheGunslinger wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am assuming you are unfamiliar with some of the libraries.
>>>>
>>>> I would suggest a Google search on: C STL floor function
>>>
>>>     First seven hits are for C++, eighth is for the mythical
>>> language "C/C++", ninth is for C++, tenth is a pediatrician.
>>>
>>>> I am guessing you haven't added this library which defines the floor
>>>> function:
>>>>
>>>> #include <cmath>
>>>
>>>     I'm confident you're trying to help, but you seem not to
>>> have noticed that the question was about C, not about C++.  In
>>> particular, there's no <cmath> header in C.
>>
>>
>> With all due respect, you apparently did not notice this is a "C"
>> forum, and should have been posted in a "C++" forum then...
>>
>> MJR
> 
> That said, I am fully aware that that this is a "C" forum, and as
> indicated in my response, I searched with "C" as a parameter.

You may have been aware of it, but nothing you wrote in your response
reflected that awareness, other than the use of C in your recommended
search string. However, your use of STL in that same string negates
that. Since STL is commonly used as an abbreviation for the Standard
Template Library which eventually became a major part (but NOT the
entirety) of the C++ standard library, adding STL to the search
virtually guarantees exclusion of C-specific web sites.

...
> And the website I listed is a C programming support site.

No, it's a C and C++ programming site, which like many such sites, does
not do a good job of dealing with the differences between C and C++. In
particular, the particular page you cited documents exclusively the C++
version of the floor() function.

I checked, and most of the pages at that site for other standard library
functions document both the C and the C++ header file name, so it was
just bad luck that the page for floor() does not.

> So, if you have a problem with my response, perhaps you should really
> take it up with the website referenced.

The last paragraph of your original message was written entirely by you.
Neither of the mistakes in that paragraph was the responsibility of
anyone other than yourself, and that paragraph could not have been
written by someone who was, as you claim to have been, 'fully aware that
this is a "C" forum'.

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floor() Andre <pas.mois@ailleur.be> - 2012-08-01 14:34 +0200
  Re: floor() Xavier Roche <xroche@free.fr.NOSPAM.invalid> - 2012-08-01 14:38 +0200
    Re: floor() Andre <pas.mois@ailleur.be> - 2012-08-01 16:47 +0200
    Re: floor() Andre <pas.mois@ailleur.be> - 2012-08-01 17:49 +0200
      Re: floor() Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-08-01 15:53 +0000
        Re: floor() falk@rahul.net (Edward A. Falk) - 2012-08-01 18:26 +0000
        Re: floor() Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-08-02 16:30 +0000
          Re: floor() Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-02 14:58 -0700
      Re: floor() "Heinrich Wolf" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-01 17:56 +0200
      Re: floor() Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2012-08-01 17:58 +0200
      Re: floor() Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-01 10:31 -0700
        Re: floor() Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2012-08-01 10:43 -0700
          Re: floor() James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-08-01 13:51 -0400
            Re: floor() Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2012-08-01 10:59 -0700
              Re: floor() Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2012-08-02 10:04 +0200
              Re: floor() Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-08-02 16:33 +0000
              Re: floor() Craig Franck <craiglfranck@gmail.com> - 2012-08-03 20:49 -0400
  Re: floor() Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2012-08-01 16:47 +0200
    Re: floor() Andre <pas.mois@ailleur.be> - 2012-08-01 16:48 +0200
  Re: floor() TheGunslinger <mikiesrunsbaal.sec@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-08-01 09:49 -0500
    Re: floor() Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-08-01 10:58 -0400
      Re: floor() TheGunslinger <mikiesrunsbaal.sec@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-08-01 10:02 -0500
        Re: floor() James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-08-01 11:10 -0400
        Re: floor() TheGunslinger <mikiesrunsbaal.sec@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-08-01 10:12 -0500
          Re: floor() pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-08-01 12:04 -0400
          Re: floor() James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-08-01 12:04 -0400
          Re: floor() Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-08-01 13:07 -0400
          Re: floor() Craig Franck <craiglfranck@gmail.com> - 2012-08-03 21:11 -0400

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