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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Toolmaker's tip for MPW.
Keywords: Link with stubs.
Message-ID: <11094@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 27 May 88 01:47:27 GMT
References: <8559@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: dan@apple.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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Watch out for one GOTCHA, however.  The stubs file as it ships with MPW
also stubs out the routines that print floating point numbers.  If you
do a printf with a floating point number nothing will complain but your
answer will be entirely wrong!

A typical misuse of this stubs file came for me when I wrote a simple
tool that did no floating point.  Then I wanted to time the benchmark
with TickCount and print the result rounded to tenths of a second.  The
answers came out all wrong.

WORKAROUND: delete the last two lines of the file which are:

ecvt() {}
fcvt() {}

and then your printf of floating point numbers will work properly and
you will still save a bunch of space.

Dan Allen
Software Explorer
Apple Computer