- handed are unknown (e.g. 1e300). However, in Exim, the only use of %f
- is for printing load averages, and these are actually stored as integers
- (load average * 1000) so the size of the numbers is constrained. */
+ handed are unknown (e.g. 1e300). However, in Exim, %f is used for
+ printing load averages, and these are actually stored as integers
+ (load average * 1000) so the size of the numbers is constrained.
+ It is also used for formatting sending rates, where the simplicity
+ of the format prevents overflow. */