From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with DJGPP V2.01 - atof() function
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 09:18:18 -0800
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Joe Wright wrote:

> Not so fast.  Before the answer, we have the real question:  Not why is
> the result 'wrong' but why are they different?  Why does i=(int)(f*100);
> yield a different result than f=f*100; i=(int)f; ?  Why?  Clearly the
> compiler is doing conversions differently in the two cases.

As I said earlier, I'm not seeing any difference here (at least with gcc
2.7.2 under Linux).

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