Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:35:14 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Mr. Veli Suorsa" <VJSuorsa AT Surfeu DOT Fi>
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Subject: Re: Fortran / C compiler precision and code pack
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Mr. Veli Suorsa wrote:

> >If your problem is with 14.399996 being printed instead of 14.4,
> >that's normal: REAL variables only have about 6.5 digits of
> >precision.  Try using DOUBLE PRECISION instead.
> 
> Thanks, it seems to be ok. 
> But was it a bug, I have newer seen before in my long life?

No, it is not a bug.  FWIW, I've seen such cases quite a few times.  It 
is simply a consequence of finite precision of floating-point numbers.

> >There's a GNU Pascal compiler on the usual DJGPP sites; look for 
> >v2gnu/gpc20bb.zip.
> 
> Do you need some help with updating download sites?
> 
> On ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/00_index.txt
> 
> there was only filenames, not comment like:
> 
> gpc20bb.zip  B  1,903,230 001126 
> gpc20bbd.zip B    163,398 001116 
> gpc20bbs.zip B  2,769,308 001116 

Thanks for catching this, I will fix it.