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From: kooijman@duteca (Richard Kooijman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Microsoft C actually does something better!
Message-ID: <1217@duteca.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 91 12:01:28 GMT
References: <8904@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> <8854@hub.ucsb.edu>
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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6600m00n@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Steelworker) writes:

>In article <8904@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:


>>Case 1: { double x=1e200; printf("%g",x*x); }
>>(With some compilers, the 80x87 has to have the overflow trap masked off).

>First problem-  the printf should read 
>printf("%lg",x*x);
>         ^
>I have made this error enough times to preach about this one!

WRONG, the l modifier only applies to long int's and not floating point
numbers.

Richard.