James Turner wrote: > How do you generate a degree symbol under Linux? I was trying to and > failed miserably ...
This is character 0xb0 in the various ISO 8859 character sets (try "man ascii" and "man iso_8859_1"), which essentially replace ASCII on modern systems. US keyboards won't generate them, obviously, so inserting them is going to be editor-dependent. I used the GNOME character picker, which was designed for this purpose -- just select what you want, and cut/paste the text into your email editor. > > char buf[64]; > > int i, len, top=0; > > double stk[32], sign=1; > > 32 seems a trifle excessive, I might go with 4 ... not a big deal > though. Eeep, no! Bad bug! This is classic (read: "irresponsible") C, remember? The 32 is there for a reason -- the maximum number of individual, whitespace-separted numbers to be pushed onto that stack is equal to half of the input buffer length. If you use anything less than 32, your parser (remember what a parser does: accept input from outside the program!) will be fragile and subject to stack overflow with bad input. Not a problem for your code, but goodness forbid that someone writing an internet server (say, a big internet flight plan database?) pasted the [4] in without realizing the danger. And in any case, you're over-optimizing. The performance difference between placing a 32 element array on the stack and a 4 element array on the stack is exactly zero. > Would prefer to use strtod here, atof is deprecated. not sure about > platform compatibility though. If you like. I've never heard of a libc implementation that lacks atof, though. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
