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From: TEITTINEN@cc.helsinki.fi (Marko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Bug in Turbo C "printf"; potentially serious. I think.
Message-ID: <1440@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 14 Nov 89 18:33:11 GMT
References: <2158@leah.Albany.Edu>
Organization: University of Helsinki
Lines: 19

In article <2158@leah.Albany.Edu>, rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes:
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> 
> I think that this should result in the line "9.600000 10 9.6\n" being printed
> on standard output.
> 
> Turbo C in the small model prints "1" instead of "10"; it seems that whenever
> the print format is "%.0lf"  and the argument rounds to a power of 10,
> printf and fprintf (haven't tried cprintf or sprintf) print 1 too few '0's.
>
> Workaround: Don't use "%.0lf"!!!

Another way to handle this is to find patches for TC. The patches can be
found in SIMTEL20 in directory PD1:<MSDOS.TURBOC> (or was it <MSDOS.TC>?)

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