Vik Heyndrickx <Vik.Heyndrickx@rug.ac.be> writes:

|>  Hi to you all,
|>
|>  Are the following character sequences valid (C/C++) float literals?
|>
|>   03158.216
|>   078e25
|>
|>  In my opinion they are. But why do some compilers then complain they are
|>  invalid octal constants? Obviously the problem is the leading '0',
|>  however the C++ standard does say that the longest character sequence
|>  has to be taken in account.
|>
|>  Any comments?

Such compilers are broken.  The above are valid floating point literals.

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Hi to you all,

Are the following character sequences valid (C/C++) float literals?

 03158.216
 078e25

In my opinion they are. But why do some compilers then complain they are
invalid octal constants? Obviously the problem is the leading '0',
however the C++ standard does say that the longest character sequence
has to be taken in account.

Any comments?
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