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From: boyne@hplvli.HP.COM (Art Boyne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problem with Turbo C++
Message-ID: <27320001@hplvli.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 90 14:55:00 GMT
References: <GHENNIGA.90Oct1212248@gauss.nmsu.edu>
Organization: Loveland Inst. Div
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ghenniga@nmsu.edu (Gary Hennigan) writes:

>To accomplish this I used this piece of code:
>
>for( nr=1; nr <= Anr; nr++)
>{
>  fscanf( inpfile, "%f\n", &A[nr][1] );
>}
>
>Now everything compiles fine but when I run it I get the following error:
>
> scanf : floating point formats not linked
>Abnormal program terminaion.

This is a known bug in Turbo C: because there are no floating point
operations in the program other that the fscanf/fprintf, the compiler
forgets to tell the linker to include the floating point library stuff.
The solution is to add a dummy (never called) routine such as:

int stupid_turbo_c()
{
  double x = 1.0;
  return (int)x;
}

Art Boyne, boyne@hplvla.hp.com