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From: baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
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Subject: Floating Point Bugs in Turbo C 1.0
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Date: 9 Oct 89 18:54:57 GMT
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Turboc C 1.0 has bugs in it when dealing with floating point numbers.
For example, the atof() function does not work at all, it always returns
0.0. The problem was fixed in version 1.5, so you should get a more
recent version of Turbo C, preferably version 2.0.