[Cfp-interest] format - type names issue

Jim Thomas jwthomas at cup.hp.com
Wed Feb 3 15:50:47 PST 2010


Fred J. Tydeman wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:30:45 -0800, Jim Thomas wrote:
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>>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.
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>Both
> float complex
> complex float
>are valid C99.
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>As per 6.7.2 Type specifiers may occur in any order.
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All instances in the C standard have _Complex, _Imaginary, complex, or 
imaginary last.

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