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From: beckman@dev386.UUCP (Zacharias Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Floating point math and Windows SDK
Keywords: __fptask sdk float linking
Message-ID: <425@dev386.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 89 14:43:00 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City
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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...

We had this problem during development of one of our applications.  Microsoft
Online solved it for us; the problem seems to have been caused by installing
the latest version of C after we had installed the SDK.  We are using the
latest SDK (I seem to remember that our SDK version 2.00), and C 5.1 with
-FPa.  In any case, the C5FIX and link4 updates are not necessary with these
versions.

By re-installing C and THEN re-installing the SDK, these problems were fixed
for us.  In our case, the exact problem was a '__fptaskdata multiply defined'
error during the link phase.  Hope this helps.