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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: Fabrice ILPONSE <fabrice AT trash DOT lip6 DOT fr>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 11:59:44 +0000
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Subject: Re: bug??!!?? using cast from double to int
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Fabrice ILPONSE <fabrice AT trash DOT lip6 DOT fr> wrote:

> Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > Fabrice ILPONSE <fabrice AT trash DOT lip6 DOT fr> wrote:
> >
> > >       I've downloaded the "ncurve3" program from that create curves. It uses
> > > doubles for coordonates but I cast them to int for my purpose.
> > > Sometimes, my prog exist on FPE. I don't know why! (it's really the
> > > cast) . So i changed the doubles to floats and it works well.
> > > Question: is it a gcc bug?
> >
> > Are you sure that that's the problem?
> > Are the values correct, I mean: are valid numbers? (no infinite, etc).
> >
> 
>     it's a good remark, I'll try to get the doubles values. But that do not
> explain why it works now with floats! :|

But perhaps the bit pattern stored in the double is invalid, but not the one in 
the float.

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