Thank you all!!!!

Finally I understand what's going wrong and can take care of that.

I'm now using the "{$MINFPCONSTPREC 64}" and have the correct result. Again, 
thank you for pointing me to that behavior!



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org>
To: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2024, 13:50:48
Subject: [fpc-pascal] Floating point question

Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal wrote:
> On 03/02/2024 18:42, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> Constants are also evaluated wrong,you don’t know what that constant 
>> is going to be used for, so all steps of evaluating a constant MUST be 
>> done in extended by the compiler, or the answer is just wrong.

> See 
> https://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.2.0#Floating_point_constants 
> and https://www.freepascal.org/daily/doc/prog/progsu19.html

I think this discussion shows that the 2.2 compiler change was a bad idea (for 
modes other than 
Delphi).

Regards,

Adriaan van Os
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