[fpc-devel] FormatFloat

[darekm at emadar.com]

>
> On 30 Dec 2009, at 17:27, darekm at emadar.com wrote:
>
>> this program:
>> var
>>  d1,d2 : double;
    d1,d2 : extended;
>> begin
>>  d1:=105;
>>  d2:=1.05e2;
>>  writeln(d1-d2);
>> end;
>
> That's only part of a program, it does not compile. You may have typed it
> in your mail and accidentally put a ";" at the end instead of a ".", but
> that still means that the program you tested was probably different from
> what you wrote above.

>
>> result: 6.9388939907E-18
>>
>> is this bug?
>
> With which FPC version on which platform and with which test program do
> you get this result? Did you use any special options to compile the RTL or
> compiler? When I fix the above code to end with a "." instead of with a
> ";", I get " 0.00000000000000E+000" with FPC 2.2.4, 2.4.0 and 2.5.1 on
> different platforms (Mac OS X/ppc, Mac OS X/i386, Linux/i386).

sorry,
I did not notice, that is different type (extended)

version 2.5.1 [2009/11/05] (linux and windows)


Darek