Date: Wed, 4 Oct 95 13:43:05 +0100
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: til AT zentrum DOT phys DOT chemie DOT tu-muenchen DOT de (Tilmann Haeberle)
Subject: Re: Bugg on Pentium HP vectra XU

>
> > [...] 
> > On other pentiums, everything is allright!
> > Using BC to compile gives good result!
> > 
> > So why???????????
> > 
>
>Hmmm. Isn't there a flag in gcc-2.6.3 called 
>"-fI_am_a_boken_pentium" ?
>Don't know if this has to the with the pentium fdiv bug, 
>but it might be worth thinking of.

FDIV bug should behave always the same.

IMHO the / operator delivers a double (not float) result, so you
should try 

#include <stdio.h>
void main() {
	printf("%f\n",(float) (1024.0f/378.0f));
}


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