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From: tb@qucis.UUCP (Tom Bradshaw)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: looking for a fix in pi
Message-ID: <116@qucis.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-May-85 03:10:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: qucis.116
Posted: Wed May  1 03:10:18 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 2-May-85 07:11:05 EDT
Organization: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
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Has anyone found a fix for the following bug in the pascal compiler?
If someone has found a fix I would like to know.

Thanks
T. Bradshaw (utcsri!qucis!tb)


Description:
	Pix blows up on the second real number read from stdin.
	More precisely, the first real read following the read
	of a real number entered with a decimal point will fail.

Repeat-By:

	Script started on Fri Feb  3 18:36:32 1984
	% cat test2.p
	program cnvx(input,output);
	var 
	        x:real;

	begin
	        readln(x); writeln(x);
	        readln(x); writeln(x);
	end.
	% pix test2.p
	Execution begins...
	1.1
	 1.10000000000000e+00
	1.2

	standard input: Bad data found on real read

	Program error
	Do you wish to enter the debugger? n

	        Error in "cnvx"+2 near line 7.
	Execution terminated abnormally.

	3 statements executed in 0000.80 seconds cpu time.
	%
	script done on Fri Feb  3 18:37:43 1984

Fix:
	Unknown.