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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Incorrect subtraction in C program
Message-ID: <442@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 13:08:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: mtxinu.442
Posted: Thu Jun  4 13:08:14 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 11:44:04 EDT
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Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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Keywords: vax, C, 4.3BSD
Xref: utgpu comp.unix.wizards:2384 comp.lang.c:2246

>>The problem is that when I subtract a tiny number from 1,
>
>There is a bug in the emulation code in /sys/vax/emulate.s.  Try
>
>	main(){printf("%.0f\n", 0.9);exit(0);}
>
>I have not seen a fix on comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes.

I posted fixes for that problem to this group some months ago.  mt Xinu
customers - including educational institutions - with maintenance
contracts also received a Maintenance Release with the correct code in
the past several weeks.  I don't have the diffs handy right now;
if anyone needs them and can't get them either from an archive or
from our product release, send me *mail* and I'll dig them out again.

-- 
Ed Gould                    mt Xinu, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley, CA  94710  USA
{ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed   +1 415 644 0146

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