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Re: the "general" floating point format
Anthony Shipman <als@iinet.net.au> writes:
> Oh, I missed that bit in the middle. Is that the C standard or just how Gnu C
> does it?
It is the C standard. Note that this is implemented in the C library,
which is not part of GCC.
> Do you know if libstdc++ uses exactly the same specification or perhaps
> delegates to printf()? (I started off searching for how the C++ "general"
> format was defined).
libstdc++ delegates to printf.
Ian