Valid floating-point constants ?

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From: Fred Tydeman
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:04

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I have run across some tools and compilers that do not like:

  08.5    09.   09e0

They complain that those are invalid octal integers.  I claim
that they are valid decimal floating-point constants. Who is right?

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Subject: Valid floating-point constants ?
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