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From: tas@mtuxo.att.com (XMPC2-T.SKROBALA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Manx and floats
Summary: can use "e printf"
Message-ID: <4525@mtuxo.att.com>
Date: 21 Apr 89 16:37:45 GMT
References: <13477@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
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In article <13477@louie.udel.EDU>, mermelstein@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca (Lois Mermelstein) writes:
> 
> However, if you recompile and link, adding the options to generate info
> for SDB, and run the program with SDB, you'll discover that SDB won't
> be able to tell you the correct values of any floating point (float OR
> double) variables, structure elements, etc. (You, instead, get things
> like [lotsa digits]e-314 when the value should be 1.0.)

I, too have had problems getting SDB to print floating point values.  It
may be possible to get it to work with one of the other floating-point
models, but, in any case, there is a workaround that you may be able to
use.  Simply give sdb the command
	e printf( "%f", variable )
Assuming that your program has printf() linked in, you can use that command to
invoke a call to printf, which will send its output to the standard output.
If the standard output is your console window, you just have to take a peek
at that screen to see your variable's value.

Tom Skrobala  AT&T Bell Laboratories  att!mtuxo!tas