From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Representation of large hex values
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:24:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jesmi5l3g9.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040124151156.GB1029@gallifrey> (David Alan Gilbert's message of "Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:11:56 +0000")
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org> writes:
> For clarity, it would seem best to use a distinct format character;
> so perhaps prefix these numbers by 0y (read Oi!) and then you
> could use %y (and %Y if you REALLY want) in printf.
POSIX defines the ' flag to enable use of thousand separators for decimal
formats. This could easily be extended to hex formats.
Andreas.
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2004-01-24 15:11 Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2004-01-24 16:24 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2004-01-24 16:58 ` Philippe Elie
2004-01-24 15:55 Joe Korty
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