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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Manx and floats
Summary: Manx SDB only knows one floating point format
Message-ID: <3737@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 22 Apr 89 13:38:55 GMT
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In article <5135@hubcap.clemson.edu> disd@hubcap.clemson.edu (BJ Backitis) writes:
>sscanf(text,"%f",&number);
>
>Now according to SDB, text is indeed " 2.78 \n", but number does not get
>converted to the floating point equivalent.  

You are probably scanning the number in fine and Manx SDB is lying to you
about what's in there.

Manx SDB only knows how to debug the floating point format selected by
"+fi" compiler option and linked with the "-ma" library variants, like
"ma," "mal" and "mal32."
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