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From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: IRIX 3.2 C compiler bug
Summary: Bug is fixed in release after 3.2
Message-ID: <49687@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 5 Feb 90 18:17:45 GMT
References: <90Feb5.000622est.4918@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <90Feb5.000622est.4918@neat.cs.toronto.edu>, ken@cs.toronto.edu (Ken Lalonde) writes:
> 		double a,b,c;
> 		b = 1.0;
> 		c = 2.0;
> 		a = b==c;  
The cc bug is in assigning the required 1 or 0 to a double where the
conditional involves doubles:
		int i; i = (a==c);
and
		if(a ==c) ....
etc....   work ok.

It has been fixed for the release after 3.2.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)335-1548  davea@sgi.com ]