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Subject: Lattice atof() Bug?
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Date: 5 Sep 90 19:50:15 GMT
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> regarding the atof() problem in lattice "C"

The atof() seems to work fine; the difficulty is in the
printf() routine. I beleive with many vendors there are
two seperate printf() functions; one for interger math , and
one for double precision. It is perhaps the latter function
that is too blame - in fact it may not exist - which would explain
why when you write printf("%f",double_number) you end up with "%f"
on the screen since the first function is unaware of the %f option, therefore
treats it as though it is a string.

To sum up - Yeah I think it's a bug and it has been bothering me for some time!