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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 20:01:14 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Is this specific to cygwin or gcc?
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"George J. Wakileh" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am using cygwin 1.3.1 with gcc 2.95.3.  In the simple c program below,
> there seems to be a bug in gcc when using floats.  There is a factor of 10.
> 
> I asked a friend in Canada to check this on Borland.  She replied she got
> everything to work fine and the second result is 8.5 not 85.0 as I am
> getting from cygwin gcc.
> 
> Any hints as to what is happening?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George
> 
> ---
> 
> main()
> {   double a, b, c;
> 
>       printf("\nEnter a --> ");
>       scanf("%lf", &a);
> 
>       printf("\nEnter b --> ");
>       scanf("%lf", &b);
> 
>         c = (a + b) / 2.;
>         printf("a is %lf,", a);
>         printf(" and b is %lf\n", b);
>         printf("The average is %lf\n", c);
> }
> 
> Enter a --> 6
> 
> Enter b --> 7
> a is 6.000000, and b is 7.000000
> The average is 6.500000
> 
> Enter a --> 6.5
> 
> Enter b --> 8.5
> a is 65.000000, and b is 85.000000
> The average is 75.000000
> 

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Earnie.

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