Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 3 authors, 2024-11-17

Re: improve description of %a in printf(3)

From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2024-11-13 11:53:50

Hi Jonathan,

On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 11:47:14AM GMT, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 at 11:38, Alejandro Colomar [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 02:11:52AM GMT, Ken Pizzini wrote:
quoted
-The digit before the decimal point is unspecified for nonnormalized
+The digit before the radix point is unspecified for nonnormalized
 numbers, and nonzero but otherwise unspecified for normalized numbers.
-The exponent always contains at least one
+The exponent
+.IR d ,
If there's a comma after d then shouldn't there be one before it too?
Agree.  Thanks!
So either "The exponent, d, is ..." or just "The exponent d is ..."

But not "The exponent d, is ..."
Have a lovely day!
Alex

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