From: "Mr. Veli Suorsa" <VJSuorsa AT Surfeu DOT Fi>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, Djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:11:05 +0200
Subject: Re: Fortran / C compiler precision and code pack
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Hi!

Thanks for your e-mail.

>>  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?

>
>If your problem is with 14.399996 being printed instead of 14.4,
>that's normal: REAL variables only have about 6.5 digits of
>precision.  Try using DOUBLE PRECISION instead.

Thanks, it seems to be ok. 
But was it a bug, I have newer seen before in my long life?

>> P.S. Does Gnu Pascal compiler exist and is there any user online for a little

>> sort test?
>
>There's a GNU Pascal compiler on the usual DJGPP sites; look for 
>v2gnu/gpc20bb.zip.

Do you need some help with updating download sites?

On ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/00_index.txt

there was only filenames, not comment like:

gpc20bb.zip  B  1,903,230 001126 
gpc20bbd.zip B    163,398 001116 
gpc20bbs.zip B  2,769,308 001116 
gpp2952b.zip B  1,713,599 000117 GNU C++ Compiler 2.95.2 for DJGPP V2
gpp2952d.zip B    497,991 001208 GNU C++ Compiler 2.95.2 docs: html/dvi/ps
gprf272b.zip B     91,640 001111 GNU Gperf 2.7.2 for DJGPP V2
gprf272d.zip B    154,480 001111 GNU Gperf 2.7.2 docs: html/dvi/ps
gprf272s.zip B    415,669 001111 GNU Gperf 2.7.2 sources
gpt112b.txt  A        372 960426 
gpt112b.zip  B    698,287 960506 GNU Pascal with Turbo Pascal Extensions

That is why I try gpt112b.zip and it did not compile a word.

Thanks.

Veli Suorsa
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