From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: An interesting object lesson (Ada vs C)
Date: 1998/04/26
Date: 1998-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.893646092@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6hvpf2$77d$1@news.hal-pc.org
<<It didn't. It got DISPLAYED as 0. That's what happens when you use
compiler-specific extensions (as "long double" is, at least for the
time being) without understanding the underlying mechanisms. By the
mechanism that printf uses to accept parameters, it had every reason to
expect that you would pass it a double, but you passed it a long
double.
>>
Incidentally, just so no confusion arises (the use of "you" in the above)
no need to tell me what is wrong, I know (or I would not have posted it),
and no use speaking to the student (he didn't post it here, and is not
reading CLA!)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-26 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-26 0:00 An interesting object lesson (Ada vs C) Robert Dewar
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-04-27 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-04-30 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-29 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-05-01 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1998-05-01 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-04-27 0:00 ` Aaro Koskinen
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