From: Prashant Ramachandra <rprash AT wilco-int DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Message-ID: <5BF60CD649EDD411A04600B0D049F53A09249F@hydmail02.hyd.wilco-int.com>
Subject: RE: Fortran / C compiler precision and code pack
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:32:34 +0530 
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On Thursday, March 01, 2001 9:14 AM, Mr. Veli Suorsa
[SMTP:VJSuorsa AT Surfeu DOT Fi] wrote:
| I test Gnu Fortran compiler, g77 (g772952b : gcc-2.95.2) with a
| little program
| like this:
| 
| ---
|       PROGRAM PAY
| C
| C  A program to calculate the nett pay of a British worker
| C  (pay3_4.for)
| ...
| ...
|       PRINT *, ' '
|       PRINT *, 'Nett pay       : ', NETTPAY
|       STOP
|       END
| ---
| 
| Compiler seems to work correctly, but...
| 
| When you give 1600 
| to gross pay, print is:
| 
|  Gross pay      : 1600
|  Superannuation : 96.
|  Tax            : 376.
|  Insurance      : 14.3999996
|  
|  Nett pay       : 1113.59998
| 
| Did I everything right, because insurance (real) was different from
| 14.4?
| 
| Or is there a bug in Fortran / C compiler precision.

Don't know about this. Sorry.

| Another thing, that bothers me is size of exe- code (about 150 KB
| and when pkzipped
| about 50 KB). Is there any way or switch to pack/ optimise code?

You probably forgot to strip it. Use

strip filename.exe

and see the difference.

| P.S. Does Gnu Pascal compiler exist and is there any user online for
| a little
| sort test?

It doesn't IIRC.
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Prashant TR <tr AT midpec DOT com>
Web: http://www.midpec.com/


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