From: "Mr. Veli Suorsa" Sender: vjsuorsa AT Surfeu DOT Fi To: Djgpp AT delorie DOT com Cc: Eli Zaretskii , VJSuorsa AT Surfeu DOT Fi Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:23:58 +0200 Subject: Re: Fortran / C compiler precision and code pack and Converters X-Mailer: CWMail Web to Mail Gateway 2.6k, http://netwinsite.com/top_mail.htm Message-id: <3a9f90de.69e.0@surfeu.fi> X-User-Info: 193.167.106.194 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Thanks for your e-mail. >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 What does FWIW means (heave a deep sigh, I presume)? >few times. It is simply a consequence of finite precision >of floating-point numbers. Program was just a test from book. Compilers finite precision differ from each other. >> >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. Converters ---------- Where can I find converters or translators Pascal - > C Fortran - > C Qbasic - > C Basic - > C Java - > C Sql - > C C - > C++ I ask thiis, because in my own "museum", I have about 20 000 lines perfect and tested code to convert to C/ C++. Thank you. Veli Suorsa --- Oulu, FINLAND Mailto:VJSuorsa AT Surfeu DOT Fi http://members.surfeu.fi/veli.suorsa/ http://www.surfeu.fi