Re: Exponent Format specifiers for %g

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"Ben Voigt" <rbv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Charles Wang[MSFT]" <changliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, Buddy,
Appreicate your understanding that this is by design. There is no way to
control the format of the exponent in VC++. In VC++, there is just 3
digits
of the exponent. You can say it is the least and also the most. So it can
provide a consitent output format with 3 digits of the exponent.

It is not consistent with the ANSI standard for printf.

It *is* consistent with C89, the original C Standard. It
is not consistent with C99, the current C Standard, but that
is just one of many ways in which the Microsoft C library
fails to conform to C99, so what the heck.

If there's sufficient demand by customers, Microsoft might
feel moved to upgrade to C99, but so far it has apparently
not been a high priority item.

P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com


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