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From: hansen@pegasus.att.com (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: using "cb" causes problems with floating-point numbers
Summary: fixed in SVr4
Keywords: cb
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.193610.25629@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 13 Dec 90 19:36:10 GMT
References: <1990Dec11.022300.313@vort.uucp>
Sender: hansen@cbnewsk.att.com (tony.l.hansen)
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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< % cat a.c
< #include <stdio.h>
< main() { float a; a = 10e-3; printf("a = %f\n", a); }
< % cb -s < a.c
< #include <stdio.h>
< main()
< {
< 	float a;
< 
< 	a = 10e - 3;	/* <--- !!! */
< 	printf("a = %f\n", a);
< }

This problem has been fixed in System V release 4.

					Tony Hansen
				att!pegasus!hansen, attmail!tony
				    hansen@pegasus.att.com