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Date: | Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:40:30 +0200 (IST) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
To: | Joe Wright <wrightj AT exis DOT net> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Problems with DJGPP V2.01 - atof() function |
In-Reply-To: | <32A33C44.68FE@exis.net> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.961203083839.3181H-100000@is> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Joe Wright wrote: > the result 'wrong' but why are they different? Why does i=(int)(f*100); > yield a different result than f=f*100; i=(int)f; ? Why? Because the second one involves an extra store of an intermediate result into the float variable `f', which causes the result to be rounded, because a float is 32 bit while the FPU internally uses 80 bits.
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