Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/03/01/07:40:49
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Mr. Veli Suorsa wrote:
> >If your problem is with 14.399996 being printed instead of 14.4,
> >that's normal: REAL variables only have about 6.5 digits of
> >precision. Try using DOUBLE PRECISION instead.
>
> Thanks, it seems to be ok.
> But was it a bug, I have newer seen before in my long life?
No, it is not a bug. FWIW, I've seen such cases quite a few times. It
is simply a consequence of finite precision of floating-point numbers.
> >There's a GNU Pascal compiler on the usual DJGPP sites; look for
> >v2gnu/gpc20bb.zip.
>
> Do you need some help with updating download sites?
>
> On ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/00_index.txt
>
> there was only filenames, not comment like:
>
> gpc20bb.zip B 1,903,230 001126
> gpc20bbd.zip B 163,398 001116
> gpc20bbs.zip B 2,769,308 001116
Thanks for catching this, I will fix it.
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