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From: jdptxt@adiron.UUCP (The Mad Hacker)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Compiler bug
Message-ID: <351@adiron.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 16:31:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 24 16:31:25 1986
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The bug that is being discussed to death was in 4.1BSD as well.
Somebody else ran into this problem a few months after I started
programming professionally, and I gave him the solution to try
i = i * 0.5 instead of i *= 0.5.  I was told to never trust
mixed-mode Fortran arithmetic and the Pascal that I worked with
in college did not support float to integer conversions so I have
stayed away from these 'op=' in mixed-mode.  I always use them when
possible otherwise.


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