Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!rna!kc
From: kc@rna.UUCP (Kaare Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Windows and Floating Point
Keywords: windows, floating, link4
Message-ID: <332@rna.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 22:22:35 GMT
Organization: Rockefeller University - Neurobiology
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I am having trouble using floating point code in my windows programs.
(Env -- msc 5.1, new libraries from Genie which were called C5FIX,
the new Genie link4, win sdk1.04) When I used the original sdk 1.04
stuff, programs containing floating point don't run. There is no
explanation, you double click on the .exe and nothing happens. Same
prog minus the floating point works ok. I tried the -FPa and -FPi
varieties of floating point. With the C5FIX libraries and link4 (from
Genie) I can't get it to link correctly. Link4 complains that something
(__fptask??, I'm at work and the error messages are at home) is 
multiply defined. The link4 libraries are swin.lib and slibce.lib, and
the link4 switches are /NOD and /NOE.

Does anyone have a version of Hello that, for example, converts
pi (a double) to text and writes it to the screen??? Any known working
floating programs or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Kaare Christian

kc@rna.rockefeller.edu