Re: Valid floating-point constants ?

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From: Larry Jones
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:01

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In article <4ibmd9$aq5@gate.seicom.net>, tydeman@tybor.com   (Fred Tydeman) writes:
> 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?

You are.  Each of those should be parsed as a single pp-number
preprocessing token which has the form of a floating-constant, not an
octal-constant.  There is nothing in the syntax or semantics that
disallows leading zeros in floating-constants.
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