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From: few@quad1.quad.com (Frank Whaley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo-C bug
Message-ID: <1675@gouda.quad.com>
Date: 1 Jun 89 20:58:19 GMT
References: <2556@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: few@gouda.quad.com (Frank Whaley)
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Organization: Quadratron Systems, Westlake Village, CA
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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.

Ooh, an interesting bug I hadn't seen before.  Yes, when TC realizes that
floating-point library code should be included, it puts a reference to the
external symbol __turboFloat into the object file.  This reference causes
the f-p code to be loaded.  You found a case where this was overlooked.
I got around the problem by adding the line:
	static void UNUSED(){_turboFloat();}
to the source file.  This kludge requires only 4 bytes for small code
models (CALL 0000;RET) and 6 for large code models.

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Frank Whaley
Senior Development Engineer
Quadratron Systems Incorporated
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