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From: john13@garfield.UUCP
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Subject: Re: C-compilers for Amiga are Terrible (really Manx problem)
Message-ID: <3061@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Nov-86 08:06:04 EST
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Summary: 

In article <3060@garfield.UUCP> john13@garfield.UUCP (me) writes:
>
>main()
>{ float x=1;
>  printf("%f\n",x); }
>
as an example of an improperly running program. It's since been pointed out
to me that technically this *should not* work, on a C compiler that plays
by the rules: it will try to assign the integer value 1 to a floating point
number. This has never caused me any problems with Lattice, or with the
compiler on our Unix system, and so I wasn't aware of it (haven't seen it in
Kernighan and Ritchie either).

So

main()
{ float x = 1.0;
  printf("%f\n",x); }

should work, right? Wrong! I tried this too and again it just printed the
letter f. So please, no flood of replies saying "force it to float with a
decimal point!".

John