On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:21:58PM +0000, David Gilbert scratched on the wall:

>      for(jj=0; jj<tree.nDim*2; jj++){
>        sqlite3_snprintf(512-nCell,&zCell[nCell],"
> %f",(double)cell.aCoord[jj].f);
> 
> That's against 3.7.4 but it looks like it's the same in the trunk.
> 
> With that change the test suite passes.  However, that %f looks a bit
> odd a few lines below and is probably worth thinking about.

  Due to the way the floating point registers work on a PDP-7, in C all
  32-bit float values are promoted to 64-bit double values when used
  in a var-arg.  Hence, for output, "%f" can be safely used for both
  32-bit and 64-bit floating point values.  The tags "%f" and "%lf" are
  the same.  (This isn't true for input functions such as scanf().)



  A favorite interview question is, given this line and no other
  information, how big must buf_size be to never clip the output?
  You can assume the default 1.6 precision ("%1.6f").

    snprintf( buf, buf_size, "%f", v );



  The answer?  At least 318 characters.

   -j

-- 
Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y  @  K R E I B I.C H >

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 but showing it to the wrong people has the tendency to make them
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