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From: walker@unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Lattice C double
Message-ID: <1990Oct01.204550.8727@unx.sas.com>
Date: 1 Oct 90 20:45:50 GMT
References: <1990Sep28.063045.2599@ericsson.se> <1990Sep29.193407.28644@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1990Sep29.193407.28644@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber) writes:
>n = fscanf(fp,"%e%e%e\n",num1,num2,num3);
>
>
>This works like a charm. But when I replace "float" with "double"
>everywhere it gives me total garbage. I don't know if the problem is
>with me (programming error), compiler settings or a compiler bug. 
>Thanks for any help.

Try replacing your %e's with %le's when you switch to double.  You have
to tell fscanf that you are passing pointers to double instead of pointers
to float.



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