From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	FW: bug in cygwinb19.dll (ver. 19.3)?
20 Jun 1998 08:15:18 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<01BD9C7D.18632E00.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To:	"'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Hi!

Once more - troubles with a floating point using latest cygwinb19.dll... Would you like to send me current newlib sources to check with?

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From: 	Siegbert Schmid
Sent: 	Saturday, June 20, 1998 18:23
To: 	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru
Subject: 	bug in cygwinb19.dll (ver. 19.3)?

Hallo Sergey,

I work with cygwin32 and your patches for several years on WinNT. Most often I 
use bash and gawk, as a physicist most time I handle megabytes of figures. 
Last week I had to run a awk-script on really a lot of data, it seemed to work 
fine but did not. The output-file (a huge matrix of floating points) had wrong 
signs in it. I used this awk-script before (may 98) without any problems. The 
problem could be reproduced many times, the wrong signs were always at the 
same places. I believe the problem came with B19.3 and has something to do 
with print and printf or with doing calculations within a print or printf statement 
in awk. Using an old cygwinb19.dll (19.1) the problem was solved.
Maybe you are interested in this bug, I'm only USING the stuff, no idea to solve 
such a problem for myself.

Greetings from Germany

Sigi

Siegbert Schmid
Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. J. Peisl
Sektion Physik
LMU Muenchen
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 Muenchen

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