From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Floating point math.
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:00:33 -0800
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Bachtel wrote:

> A snippet follows
> a=(cmax.r-cmin.r)
> 
> Whatever I do, a is always the trash value the program starts with!

You might want to post more of your actual program, so we can see it in
context.  More likely it's the flow of control in your program which
doesn't get to this statement, or something similar.

> to no avail. Any help would be _greatly_ appreciated. I'm running a
> 486dx/66, and am linking /w libgrx20 and libm.

So it's not a floating point library problem (otherwise you'd likely be
seeing crashes).

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