Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Manx and floats
Message-ID: <444@becker.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 03:54:26 GMT
References: <5135@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
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In article <5135@hubcap.clemson.edu> disd@hubcap.clemson.edu (BJ Backitis) writes:
| [...]
|sscanf(text,"%f",&number);
|
|I compiled the program using either one of the +f flags and linked using
|the following:
|
|ln -g [.o files here] -larp -l["appropriate" math lib here] -lc
|
|Now according to SDB, text is indeed " 2.78 \n", but number does not get
|converted to the floating point equivalent.  I played around with sscanf
|a little using an integer variable just to see if sscanf would work with
|ints.  (SDB makes for a wonderful C interpreter. :-)  It converted text
|to 2 and stored it in the int variable just so.  So sscanf works as
|advertised, but something needed for proper float use is missing.

	The Manx docs are a little disordered, but the
	info is in there somewhere. What you need to do
	is add "-lm" *before* the "-lc" on the link command.
	This brings in versions of printf/scanf from the
	math library which support floating point...

Cheers,
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