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From: wschmidt@phobix (Wolfram Schmidt)
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Subject: Re: Lattice C double
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Date: 3 Oct 90 22:10:50 GMT
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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
[...]

I tried this with Aztec C 5.0a. With the MANX supplied libraries
the result was O.K. With the Amiga IEEE libraries I got the same as
above. With FFP the result was even worse.

Wolfram
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