Using SCANF with DOUBLE precision variables...

[Chris Torek]

In article <9939 at cgl.ucsf.edu.ucsfcgl.UUCP> kneller at cgl.ucsf.edu.UUCP
(Don Kneller%Langridge) writes:
>[In the] Silicon Graphics [compiler] floats and doubles are the same
>size so one must use %f for both.  The "justification" is that they
>have yet another floating point type called long float with gets the
>%lf format.  It's painfully nonportable.  Sigh.

Indeed.  It may be too late now, but they should have used `long
double', and perhaps `%llf'.  `long float' is an alias for `double'
(per K&R p. 193).  (The arrogation of `%lf' is to me more distressing
than that of `long float'.)
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