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Do we designate a long double literal using an L after a floating point
literal, in the style:


long double d= 543.4545L;

In article <fqkgmf$1plc$>,
Ioannis Vranos <> wrote:
>Do we designate a long double literal using an L after a floating point
>literal, in the style:

>long double d= 543.4545L;

Yes, L or l (lower-case L) can be used.

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Walter Roberson wrote:
> In article <fqkgmf$1plc$>,
> Ioannis Vranos <> wrote:
>> Do we designate a long double literal using an L after a floating point
>> literal, in the style:
>
>> long double d= 543.4545L;
>
> Yes, L or l (lower-case L) can be used.

Both apply to C90/C95?

In article <fqkh8d$1plc$>,
Ioannis Vranos <> wrote:
>Walter Roberson wrote:
>> In article <fqkgmf$1plc$>,
>> Ioannis Vranos <> wrote:
>>> Do we designate a long double literal using an L after a floating point
>>> literal, in the style:
>>
>>> long double d= 543.4545L;

>> Yes, L or l (lower-case L) can be used.

>Both apply to C90/C95?

Unless it got revoked in C95 I pulled the information from C89.


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Walter Roberson wrote:
> In article <fqkh8d$1plc$>,
> Ioannis Vranos <> wrote:
>> Walter Roberson wrote:
>>> In article <fqkgmf$1plc$>,
>>> Ioannis Vranos <> wrote:
>>>> Do we designate a long double literal using an L after a floating point
>>>> literal, in the style:
>>>> long double d= 543.4545L;
>
>>> Yes, L or l (lower-case L) can be used.
>
>> Both apply to C90/C95?
>
> Unless it got revoked in C95 I pulled the information from C89.

OK, thanks. AFAIK, C95 didn't revoke anything, bug fixes and 3 new
standard header files in summary.

Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Do we designate a long double literal using an L after a floating point
> literal, in the style:
>
>
> long double d= 543.4545L;

I have used a lowercase l for this.

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Falcon Kirtaran <> writes:

> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> Do we designate a long double literal using an L after a floating
>> point literal, in the style:
>>
>>
>> long double d= 543.4545L;
>
> I have used a lowercase l for this.

That's not a great idea, given that l and 1 look very very similar in
many fonts commonly used for viewing program sources.

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On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:28:08 GMT, Micah Cowan <>
wrote:

>Falcon Kirtaran <> writes:
>
>> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>> Do we designate a long double literal using an L after a floating
>>> point literal, in the style:
>>>
>>>
>>> long double d= 543.4545L;
>>
>> I have used a lowercase l for this.
>
>That's not a great idea, given that l and 1 look very very similar in
>many fonts commonly used for viewing program sources.

Others agree with you (including me).

http://www.gimpel.com/html/oldbugs/bug620.htm

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jaysome wrote:

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What a complete turnaround WRT your sig. You used to fervently tout
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santosh said:

> jaysome wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> What a complete turnaround WRT your sig. You used to fervently tout
> Vista, what happened?

Presumably, Vista happened.

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