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From: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice C double
Message-ID: <14795@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 14:48:01 GMT
References: <1990Sep28.063045.2599@ericsson.se>
Reply-To: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Sep28.063045.2599@ericsson.se> etxpnil@etxsj23.ericsson.se (Per Nilsson TT/SJG 98194 ) writes:
>The following is a test program I've compiled with the Lattice C compiler.
>
>main()
>{
>    double dub;
>    dub = 12345678.0;
>    dub = dub * 10.0;
>    printf("%.9g\n",dub);
>}
>When compiled with the Lattice C V5.04, I've got the following output:
>123456779.999999999

Are you using the correct compiler flags and linker options to get
double-precision IEEE numbers?  (compile with -fi, link with
lcmieee.lib?)  These results look like FFP or single precision
IEEE numbers.

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