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From: keith@sdscal.UUCP (Keith Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: scanf problem in TC v2.01.
Summary: Turbo C 2.0 floating point problem, sample program
Message-ID: <204@sdscal.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 90 00:05:00 GMT
References: <7192.25d1e107@dit.ie> <25D4D935.3073@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <25D8649A.24584@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Organization: Stream Data Systems, Calgary, Alberta
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In article <25D8649A.24584@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
> In article <90043.093434CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET> CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
> $In article <25D4D935.3073@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>,
> $Please, people!  If you're going to post bug reports, please give SPECIFIC
> $EXAMPLES so us hackers can trace down the offending bug and obliterate it!
> $Generalized statements like this ARE NOT HELPFUL!

Well, I didn't quite believe it, but I made this test file and sure enough,
the printf doesn't print out anything that even looks like it approximates
PI.

----- to cut ----- or not to cut -----
main()
{
    float f;
    char *string = "3.1415926";

    f = atof( string );
    printf( "pi = %f\n", f );
}
----- be it here ----- or there -----

The output to this program was:

D:\ -> test

-8209.00000

and I compiled it with:

D:\ -> tcc test

I'm not particularly worried about this bug, but I figured I might as well
post the program.

Enjoy,

Keith.

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