From: David Jenkins <me AT jenkinsdavid DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Floating point bug???
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 03:03:16 +0100
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I'm having some trouble with comparing floats to integers.
The following source uses an integer target variable and a floating
point current variable.
I set the target to a random value the change the value of current
depending on whether it is lower or higher than the target variable.

It seems simple a enough thing to ask my program to do. BUT it won't,
when it reaches "target" weird things happen. The "current" stays an
offset according to SPEED away from the "target".
I've even tried changing the "target" to a float.
Is there some function in C that I don't know about, I'm only a couple
of months old. ;-)


#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <time.h>

#define SPEED 0.1

int             main()
{
    int             target = 0,
                    d,
                    delay1,
                    delay2;
    float           current = 0.0;

/* My system normally sets target to 37 FYI ;-) */
    target = rand() % 100;

    for (d = 0; d < 600; d++) {

        if (current < target)
            current += SPEED;
        if (current > target)
            current -= SPEED;
        if (current == target)
            target = rand() % 100;


        printf("Current = %3.3f  Target = %d\n", current, target);


/*
Just a simple delay I hacked to slow the output.
YOU might want to alter this, or remove it.
*/
        delay1 = uclock();
        for (delay2 = delay1; uclock() < delay1 + 20000; delay2++) {
        }


    }
    return (0);

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David Jenkins