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From: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: UNIX-PC Floating point weirdness
Summary: Congratulations...
Message-ID: <507@gonzo.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 89 04:53:19 GMT
References: <129@bsadrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
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Organization: Gonzo Media Group
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In article <129@bsadrc.UUCP> carver@bsadrc.UUCP (Darrel R. Carver) writes:
>Now, compiling this program (call it ftest), I get this error:
>
>>>>|	$ cc -o ftest ftest.c 
>>>>|	 "ftest.c", line 18: compiler error: allocation fails, op STAR
>
>If I change line 18 to
>
>18>|		f_return->ret_val = a;
>18x|		return(a);
>
>It compiles, no problem.  I do not consider the second form
>acceptable.  In addition some of the code I have from various sources
>will do the type of assignments in the example.
>
>I can usually go around this by breaking down the subexpression, but
>it is annoying.  Any comments? flames?

Congratulations, you are now entering hacker/guru-hood in that you have
found a compiler bug and figured out an ugly but passable workaround.
With a 3b1, you are out of luck getting a fix from the vendor, so you
need to use form B or bust.

If you want a supported compiler, use gcc (:-(. sometimes, others :-).

-dB
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