# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1397695440 14400
# Node ID 3647db1a37d7513b32f37a3723412f0721f3e52b
# Parent  491b0adfec957983032846a20d993160362c57db
NEWS entry for previous printf format changes

diff -r 491b0adfec95 -r 3647db1a37d7 NEWS
--- a/NEWS	Tue Apr 15 14:12:56 2014 -0400
+++ b/NEWS	Wed Apr 16 20:44:00 2014 -0400
@@ -9,6 +9,21 @@
     has continuous 1st and 2nd derivatives while 'pchip' only has a continuous
     1st derivative.
 
+ ** Integer formats used in the printf family of functions now work for
+    64-bit integers and are more compatible with Matlab when printing
+    non-integer values.  Now instead of truncating, Octave will switch
+    the effective format to '%g' in the following circumstances:
+
+      * the value of an integer type (int8, uint32, etc.) value exceeds
+        the maximum for the format specifier.  For '%d', the limit is
+        intmax ('int64') and for '%u' it is intmax ('uint64').
+
+      * round(x) != x or the value is outside the range allowed by the
+        integer format specifier.
+
+    There is still one difference:  Matlab switches to '%e' and Octave
+    is currently switching to '%g'.
+
  ** Other new functions added in 4.2:
 
       dir_in_loadpath