the "general" floating point format

[Ian Lance Taylor]

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