diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/qecvt.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/qecvt.3 | 70 |
1 files changed, 70 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man3/qecvt.3 b/man3/qecvt.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..551c68799 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/qecvt.3 @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2002 Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" +.\" This replaces an earlier man page written by Walter Harms +.\" <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>. +.\" +.TH QECVT 3 2002-08-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +qecvt, qfcvt, qgcvt \- convert a floating-point number to a string +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B #include <stdlib.h> +.sp +.BI "char *qecvt(long double " number ", int " ndigits ", int *" decpt , +.BI "int *" sign ); +.sp +.BI "char *qfcvt(long double " number ", int " ndigits ", int *" decpt , +.BI "int *" sign ); +.sp +.BI "char *qgcvt(long double " number ", int " ndigit ", char *" buf ); +.SH DESCRIPTION +The functions +.BR qecvt , +.BR qfcvt +and +.BR qgcvt +are identical to +.BR ecvt , +.BR fcvt +and +.BR gcvt +respectively, except that they use a +.B "long double" +argument +.IR number . +See +.BR ecvt (3) +and +.BR gcvt (3). +.SH NOTES +These functions are obsolete. Instead, +.IR sprintf () +is recommended. +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +SysVr4.0. Not seen in most common Unix implementations, +but occurs in SunOS. Not supported by libc4 and libc5. +Supported by glibc. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR ecvt (3), +.BR ecvt_r (3), +.BR gcvt (3), +.BR sprintf (3) |