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From: semicon@watsci.uwaterloo.ca (Robert Adsett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Turbo-C oddity
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Date: 22 Jan 90 23:19:08 GMT
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In article <QZinytG00WB7IjnWNO@andrew.cmu.edu> bg0l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bruce E. Golightly) writes:
>I just got hold of Turbo-C, and am having a little problem. I cannot get
  ...
>In particular, a program that references atof compiles and links cleanly,
>but fails at run time with a message about the floating point formats not
>being linked. The program does include the math.h header file, and appears
   This is a bug in Turbo-C.  There is a patch available for it (in the
directory PD1:<msdos.turbo-c> on SIMTEL20 and probably elsewhere).   A
temporary work around until you get & apply the patch is to place the line
  (void)exp(1.0);
in your code.  That will force the loading of the appropriate formats.
  

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		Robert Adsett  <semicon@watsci.UWaterloo.ca>
		Dept. of Phys, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo Ont. Canada