OpenEuphoria

Re: printf()

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> May 11, 2003
• 356 views

Juergen Luethje wrote:
> I just detected that
> 
>    printf(1, "%d\n", {1e254})
> 
> prints 255 '*'s. I wonder, whether this is intended.

Irv Mullins writes:
 >On Linux, it prints:
>>99999999999999993635870693776759177364257073275700735648394407233581562780527075488933869
>>94586947577981035182609405692455150664165314335743772262409420005560181719702721238568128
 >8624374039982763538319739206631507774359582937997162411679696940490282762240

No, it wasn't intended. I'll make a note of it. Thanks.
Euphoria's printf() does a bit of pre-processing before
calling C's printf(). The asterisks were generated by
Watcom C, used to build the DOS and WIN interpreters.
On Linux, GCC gives a better result
(accurate to about 16 decimal places.)

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com