Using SCANF with DOUBLE precision variables...

[Don Kneller%Langridge]

In article <22 at orion.UUCP> vaughan at orion.UUCP (Robert Vaughan) writes:
>>> I have been wanting to read in some real numbers, preferably thru SCANF
>>> ...
>>> declared as DOUBLE.  (...)
>
>double foo;
>
>	scanf("%lf",&foo);
>
Except, of course, in the infinite wisdom of Silicon Graphics whose
floats and doubles are the same size so one must use %f for both.  The
"justification" is that they have yet another floating point type called
long float with gets the %lf format.  It's painfully nonportable.  Sigh.
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