Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:04:28 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, bde@FreeBSD.org, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Subject: Re: lp64 vs lp32 printf Message-ID: <XFMail.20021010110428.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021010143845.GA1448@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 10-Oct-2002 David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:17:20PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: >> I'm not sure if I like 'H'. It's closer to the floating point >> specifiers >> [EFG] than to the hex specifiers [xX]. > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:30:21AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> Perhaps "%y" instead of %H? It's closer to %x and was somewhat agreed upon >> earlier. > > I was looking for something actually implied what the thing does. It > took too much digging to figure out what it meant. That is why I picked > 'H' for Hex. Does anyone have a more suggestive letter than y? %+x is the most logical thing but we can't use that. :-P %h means short, and this has nothing to do with printing shorts. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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