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From: tydeman@tybor.com (Fred Tydeman)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Valid floating-point constants ?
Date: 15 Mar 1996 12:04:57 GMT
Organization: Tydeman Consulting
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Reply-To: tydeman@tybor.com (Fred Tydeman)
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I have run across some tools and compilers that do not like:
08.5 09. 09e0
They complain that those are invalid octal integers. I claim
that they are valid decimal floating-point constants. Who is right?
Fred Tydeman +49 (7031) 288-964 Tydeman Consulting
Meisenweg 20 tydeman@netcom.com Programming, testing, C/C++ training
71032 Boeblingen /\old/\ \/new\/ Numerics editor of Jrnl. C Lang. Tran.
Deutschland (Germany) tydeman@tybor.com Member of X3J11 (ANSI "C")