kvss@violet.berkeley.edu (Suresh K. Sastry) (10/09/90)
Recently there was a thread regarding wsprintf(). While the subject is fresh in our minds: Why was wsprintf designed not to support floating point conversion? How can I do floating point printf'ing to strings? Is it O.K. to use sprintf in this case? Please help!!!! My application highly depends on floating point numbers. Thanks in advance! Suresh K. Sastry (415)524-8001
kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES) (10/18/90)
In article <1990Oct9.030948.7602@agate.berkeley.edu> kvss@violet.berkeley.edu (Suresh K. Sastry) writes: >Recently there was a thread regarding >wsprintf(). While the subject is fresh in >our minds: Why was wsprintf designed not >to support floating point conversion? How >can I do floating point printf'ing to strings? >Is it O.K. to use sprintf in this case? > >Please help!!!! My application highly It's ok to use sprintf in this case. The basic idea is that things that are most likely to be used by lots of apps eventually go into one of the windows DLLs (GDI, USER, KERNEL, or its dependents.) Floating point hasn't crossed that line yet. The only disadvantage is the runtimes may pull in unnecessary stuff along with the routines you actually use. Ken Sykes Disclaimer: The above opinions are solely my own.