From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 25 17:18:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11355 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 17:18:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp6.portal.net.au [202.12.71.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11336; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 17:18:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00582; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:41:12 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801260111.LAA00582@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: albast cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's gcvt(3) ?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jan 1998 23:07:36 BST." <199801252207.XAA14890@xs2.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:41:12 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Why doesn't FreeBSD (2.2.5) include gcvt(3), which converts > a floating-point number to a string? What is there that gcvt does that the *printf() family don't? > I need this one in order to use YACL (http://www.cs.sc.edu/~sridhar/yacl.html) > on my FreeBSD system. Should be a trivial patch, if that's all it needs. You might prod the YACL maintainer to avoid the use of platform-specific quirks. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\