From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	Floating point in perl.
18 Jun 1998 12:20:40 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<01BD9B0C.337684C0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To:	"'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

The following perl script:

#!/qub/perl

eval '$foo = 1.234;';
print "foo = ", $foo, "\n";

prints:

foo = 1.00182889401913

when running with my latest cygwinb19.dll (no problems was before). The 
only possible difference I see - the dll is linked with the latest newlib's 
snapshot.

--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia

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