Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mstan!amull
From: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: log10(8)
Summary: A little hint
Message-ID: <756@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 90 17:48:30 GMT
References: <3244@servax0.essex.ac.uk> <16022@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co. NY, NY
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In article <16022@haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
> In article <3244@servax0.essex.ac.uk> elzea@sersun0.essex.ac.uk (El-Zein A A) writes:
> >My calculator gives me 0.9030899 for log(8), While the [elided] code prints
> >-312.770165.  Can anybody tell me why.
> 
> Yes.  The program `lint' can tell you why.

lint might not tell him about the tragedy unless he uses

lint filename.c -lm

as opposed to

lint filename.c

which will not necessarily complain. You have to put lint in the 
picture about linking or this particular error could easily be
missed.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt