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

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, 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.

To me that whole mess is simply a sprintf("%d", nr) that either does this:

nr = 1000000, decade_exponent = 0:
1000000

or this:

nr = 1000000, decade_exponent = 3:
1 000 000

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa