[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8615) RFC: Splitting common/

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8615 >

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 05:38:34PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8615 >
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> Per I. Mathisen wrote:
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> > -static const char *general_int_to_text(int nr, int decade_exponent)
> > +const char *general_int_to_text(int nr, int decade_exponent)
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> I have no idea what this function does just by looking at the prototype. 
>   nr?  decade?  general int?  If we make it public it should be more 
> self-explanatory.

It is more like a "format_big_number" the big number is given as a
mantissa ("nr") and a factor. The factor has the form
10^exponent. exponent is "decade_exponent".

        Raimar

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