[Cfp-interest] format - type names issue

Fred J. Tydeman tydeman at tybor.com
Wed Feb 3 13:54:31 PST 2010


On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:30:45 -0800, Jim Thomas wrote:

>Given that the existing names for imaginary and complex types have the 
>associated real type first (e.g., float complex), it seems more 
>consistent with C style to place _Complex and _Imaginary last.

Both
 float complex
 complex float
are valid C99.

As per 6.7.2 Type specifiers may occur in any order.

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