Subj : Re: Any help on why?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder
Date : Wed Jul 07 2004 10:47 am

Thomas Maeder [TeamB] wrote:

>Bob Gonder  writes:
>
>> Poster could have used %lX for float or double as %X is int, whatever
>> size that is (target dependant)..
>
>Certainly not.

Certainly not what? dependant? Ok, but I thought in the olden days
floats were 4 bytes, doubles, double that (hence the distinction).

In BCB (just tested it) floats are pushed as 8. so %LX works for them.

And, since we are in the BC group, not BCB, the following from BC++3.1
help on float:
   float, double and long double (keywords)
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  Real number data types

   Type          Ĥ Length  Ĥ Range
  ---------------+---------+---------------------------------------
   float         Ĥ 32 bits Ĥ   3.4 * (10**-38) to 3.4 * (10**+38)
   double        Ĥ 64 bits Ĥ  1.7 * (10**-308) to 1.7 * (10**+308)
   long double   Ĥ 80 bits Ĥ 3.4 * (10**-4932) to 1.1 * (10**+4932)

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