From: billlanam AT california DOT com (Bill Lanam)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ecvt() - where?
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 06:20:03 GMT
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On Wed, 04 Dec 1996 19:57:42 -0800, "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com> wrote:

>> According to the GCC info files there's supposed to be a function
>> called ecvt() inside libc.a. It doesn't seem to be included in the
>> DJGPP libc.a, however.
>> 
>> Any ideas on how to remedy this?
>
>I just did a thorough search of the info files and the libraries, and
>the only place the 'ecvt()' function is ever mentioned is in the
>"Interoperation" node of gcc.inf.  It doesn't appear in the libc
>documentation or any of the libraries; I ran a check using "nm *.a |
>grep "ecvt" and came up with zilch.
>
>I have never actually heard of this function; can anyone say what it is
>for?  ;)
>
ecvt converts a floating point number to a char. string.

char *ecvt (double value, int count, int *dec, int *sign)
value - Number to be converted.
count - Number of digits stored.
dec - Stored decimal point position.
sign - Sign of converted number.

returns a string of digits.

easy to port to DJGPP using the sfprintf function.

	Bill Lanam