Actually it's printf.. (was Re: Another C compiler bug)

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In article <5017 at amara.UUCP>, jcm at amara.UUCP (John Martin) writes...
>In article <1990Nov1.153433.4006 at cimage.com> brian at dgsi.UUCP (Brian Kelley) writes:
>>In article <11565 at sybase.sybase.com> mcfong at mercury.sybase.com () writes:
>>>[...]
>>>Looks like yet another compiler bug which MIPS has fixed but DEC and
>>>SGI have not yet picked up.
>>>[...]
>>I think the main problem is ULTRIX 4.0 is using version 2.00 of the MIPS
>>C compiler.
> 
>No, actually I suspect that the real culprit is "printf" not rounding
>properly (though I confess I haven't checked the binary form for the
>7e-7 floating-point value to completely absolve the compiler).

Or you count try forcing printf to use more precision, using something like
%10.8f and seeing if 7e-7 still prints as 0.0000000.

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