Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 12:17:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: albast <albast@xs4all.nl>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's gcvt(3) ?? Message-ID: <19980126121703.20350@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199801260111.LAA00582@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 11:41:12AM %2B1030 References: <199801252207.XAA14890@xs2.xs4all.nl> <199801260111.LAA00582@word.smith.net.au>
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On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 11:41:12AM +1030, Mike Smith wrote: >> 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? Nothing, if I recall correctly. Some systems (at least MIPS) use *cvt() (where * is a subset of the format characters) as part of the implementation of *printf(). For some reason, this implementation is bypassing the *printf() layer. Greg
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