Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:41:12 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: albast <albast@xs4all.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's gcvt(3) ?? Message-ID: <199801260111.LAA00582@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jan 1998 23:07:36 BST." <199801252207.XAA14890@xs2.xs4all.nl>
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> Why doesn't FreeBSD (2.2.5) include gcvt(3), which converts > a floating-point number to a string? What is there that gcvt does that the *printf() family don't? > I need this one in order to use YACL (http://www.cs.sc.edu/~sridhar/yacl.html) > on my FreeBSD system. Should be a trivial patch, if that's all it needs. You might prod the YACL maintainer to avoid the use of platform-specific quirks. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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