Landing: 957c1153f5ee
Project / Subsystem
gcc / doc
Date
2025-12-10
Author
Jonathan Wakely
Commit
957c1153f5eedbbab8be92c5805d2cf53a84b204
Source
github
Impact
3/10
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No
Breaking
No
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- Document d and D suffixes as defined by decimal float TR
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- The d and D suffixes for decimal floating-point literals are now documented.
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- Ensures that developers are aware of the correct syntax for decimal floating-point literals in GCC.
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- Jonathan Wakely
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- 3
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- Documentation update, low impact.
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- • documentation
- • decimal float
- • c
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- 2025-12-10T00:00:00.000Z
This commit documents the ‘d’ and ‘D’ suffixes for decimal floating-point literals, as defined by the decimal float Technical Report. It also corrects the index entries for these suffixes, clarifying that they are not integer suffixes.