Re: No difference between %f, %lf, and %Lf?

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
> The difference between %f, %lf, %Lf are about the size of the argument, not the representation as a string. For the representation such as number of decimals you have to provide flags and/or precision in the specifier IEEE printf specification.

There is actually no difference at all between %f and %lf, as per the
printf(2) documentation. Because printf is a vararg function,
arguments are always promoted to doubles. Use %Lf for passing long
double arguments. But long double is wacky.

--Kyle Sluder