Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 18:59:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <Broeker AT axp04 DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: binary representation of floats


On 6 Feb 1996, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> Unless that changed very recently, not even printf() and scanf() can
> write/read long doubles.  But you can do the 4 basic calculations with

At least in v2.0, long double *is* supported by `printf' and `scanf'.  
I'm not so sure about the last v1.x release (I'm trying very hard to 
forget about v1.x ;-), but I think it was supported there, too.