compiler/clib/gcvt.c

   1 /*
   2     Copyright © 1995-2012, The AROS Development Team. All rights reserved.
   3     $Id$
   4
   5     POSIX.1-2001 function gcvt().
   6     Function is deprecated and removed from POSIX.1-2008
   7 */
   8
   9 #include <stdio.h>
  10
  11 /*****************************************************************************
  12
  13     NAME */
  14 #include <stdlib.h>
  15
  16         char * gcvt (
  17
  18 /*  SYNOPSIS */
  19         double    number,
  20         int       ndigit,
  21         char    * buf
  22         )
  23
  24 /*  FUNCTION
  25         Converts a number to a minimal length NULL terminated ASCII string.
  26         It produces ndigit significant digits in either printf F format or
  27         E format.
  28
  29     INPUTS
  30         number  - The number to convert.
  31         ndigits - The number of significan digits that the string has to have.
  32         buf     - The buffer that will contain the result string.
  33
  34     RESULT
  35         The address of the string pointed to by buf.
  36
  37     NOTES
  38
  39     EXAMPLE
  40
  41     BUGS
  42
  43     SEE ALSO
  44         ecvt(), fcvt(), sprintf()
  45
  46     INTERNALS
  47
  48 ******************************************************************************/
  49 {
  50     sprintf (buf, "%.*G", ndigit, number);
  51
  52     return buf;
  53 } /* sprintf */
  54