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Re: strange output

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From: David Richards
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1993 17:31
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>The format %f is for doubles not long doubles. If your compiler makes 
>long doubles and doubles the same then you will not notice the error.
>I don't know what the format should be - probably something like %lf

Thankyou very much for the response. NeXT's long doubles are 8 bytes and not 12
as is gcc - ( a recent addition, as someone was kind enough to point out to me). 
As such the printf in NeXT's lib doesn't handle it.
Dave
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