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From: hansen@pegasus.UUCP
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Subject: Re: i = i * f   vs.  i *= f (definite bug!)
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Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 15:49:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 16 15:49:15 1984
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I waited a couple of days before following up on this question to see if
anyone else posted a reply. None has so far that I've seen, so here goes.

The reported problem:

    integer *= float	is not the same as	integer = integer * float

This is indeed a definite bug which has been around for many a moon. (It has
been fixed in the System V compiler.) Dennis Ritchie himself commented on
this very same problem in this very same forum last fall, acknowledging that
it was a bug. Fix those compilers!

					Tony Hansen
					pegasus!hansen