Re: Getting "60.05" not to print "6.005000e01"!!!!

[John Marshall]

Roger Chaplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FWIW, I have 5 apps "out there", and one of them uses floating point. 

So that's 20% on this totally unrepresentative sample :-), and I would
imagine that that's high.

> When I recently switched over to prc-tools 2.0 and discovered that its 
> floating point was broken,

It's fixed now, BTW.  People working with floating point can download
fixed libraries, and they'll of course make their way into the next
release.  See the thread "more on gcc float bug" on pilot.programmer.gcc
for details; the most relevant articles are

        news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
        news://news.massena.com/dvsnvRoi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]

    John   "long a = 100.0 * x + 0.5, b = a % 100;
            StrPrintF (buffer, "%ld.%s%ld", a / 100, (b < 10)? "0" : "", b);
            /* Sheesh! */"

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