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From: rwmira01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Rob Miracle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo-C bug
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Date: 31 May 89 12:28:00 GMT
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In article <2556@Portia.Stanford.EDU> hobbes@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Andrew
  Zimmerman) writes:
>
>The following program doesn't run when compiled under Turbo-C 2.0.
>(It does compile under Turbo-C, and it runs under Zortech C.)
>Does anyone know if you can explicitly tell Turbo-C 2.0 to link in
>the floating formats?
>

There is a compiler bug in Turbo-C V2.0 dealing with this problem.
[s,v,f]scanf() does not notify the linker that it needs the floating point
library.  Borland has issued a patch and it is download-able from CompuServe
(their offical support thingy).  I suspect that any Service with a Borland Sig
will have a copy of the patches.  I also saw them come over netnews a few
months ago.

For this one problem, you can also put in a line

   double x;

   x = 1.0;

and that should fix it, if you do it before the scanf I believe.  Get the
patches if you can.

Rob
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