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From: mike@vort.uucp (Mike Nemeth)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: using "cb" causes problems with floating-point numbers
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.022300.313@vort.uucp>
Date: 11 Dec 90 02:23:00 GMT
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Organization: VORT Computing, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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% cat a.c
#include <stdio.h>
main() { float a; a = 10e-3; printf("a = %f\n", a); }
% cc -o a a.c
% ./a
a = 0.010000
% cb -s < a.c > b.c
% cat b.c
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
	float a;

	a = 10e - 3;	/* <--- !!! */
	printf("a = %f\n", a);
}
% cc -o b b.c
% ./b
a = 7.000000
%

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of the above. Perhaps it was a glitch. Perhaps you are hallucinating.
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