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From: thorp@spudge.UUCP (Don Thorp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo-C bug
Message-ID: <952@spudge.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 15:54:22 GMT
References: <2556@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: thorp@spudge.UUCP (Don Thorp)
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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?
>
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
    double a[3][3];
    int i;

    /* ----- Fix for linking in floating point library -----
     * _turboFloat() is never called, it forces the FLOAT library to be
     *  linked into the program.
     */
    if (0)
      _turboFloat();

    i = 1;
    scanf("%lf",&a[i][1]);
    printf("a[1][1] = %lf\n",a[1][1]);
}

Try adding the above statement to your code.  It should fix the problem.  I
compiled your program using TC2.0 and it worked, but I've applied a number
of patches and one of them could have fixed the problem.

Don Thorp