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From: matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo-C bug
Message-ID: <630@greens.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 14:17:16 GMT
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I'm was taking a "C" programmers course at a local community college, and your
trouble sounds like a problem we (my class) were having using 'scanf' under
Turbo-C version 2.0.  Heres the fix we received (near verbatium):

~The fix is to include a call to any function (including 'scanf') and pass
~the address of a simple float as a parameter. Add the following lines to 
~your program.
~
~static void bogus(void)   /* dummy routine to fix TC-2.0 float problem */
~    {                     /* DO NOT CALL THIS FUNCTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! */
~    float f;
~    scanf(&f);
~    }

I also remember reading that the problem had to do with referencing '_turbofloat',
or something like that.


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