From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 10 8: 4:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4726737B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F173B43EA3 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 14538 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2002 15:04:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 10 Oct 2002 15:04:26 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9AF4On5014873; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:04:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021010143845.GA1448@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:04:28 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: lp64 vs lp32 printf Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org, Mike Barcroft , bde@FreeBSD.org, Andrew Gallatin Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 <>< 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