Re: Old meaning of "long double" declaration

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From: The Amorphous Mass
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 01:28

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On 10 Mar 1996, Kevin Miller wrote:

> I compiled and ran the following code on my system to attempt 
> to find out how much precision existed in the various data types:  
>  

[much snippage]

>    long double ldx; 
[...]
>    printf (" Actual Value of ldx    = %10.8f \n", (double) ldx); 

   If you want the actual value of ldx, use the %Lf format specifier, and 
drop the cast to double.

printf("  Actual value of ldx    = %10.8Lf\n", ldx);

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