Long double support
martinlicht opened this issue · comments
Citing from the in source documentation:
This is a full sprintf replacement that supports everything that
the C runtime sprintfs support, including float/double, 64-bit integers,
hex floats, field parameters (%*.*d stuff), length reads backs, etc.
This should include formatted output of long double
, which is part of the C standard (at least the current one) usually indicated by the length specififer L
. For example, %Le
. However, the allowed length do not include L
:
// allowed types: sc uidBboXx p AaGgEef n
// lengths : hh h ll j z t I64 I32 I
The C99 working draft defines printf
with support for such floating-point numbers, see also 7.19.6:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf
However, I don't know whether that feature was present in C pre-C99.
Another possibly relevant SO thread, regarding MSVC:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4089174/printf-and-long-double
I am wondering whether that is a conscious omission or any support for long double
is planned, or whether it is practically feasible at all.