[fpc-pascal]Double-precision recursion

Rich Pasco pasco at acm.org
Thu Mar 29 21:47:19 CEST 2001


My Pascal implementation of recursive floating-point algorithm fails,
but a line-by-line C translation of the same program works fine.

I stripped the program down to "just the bug" and posted the minimized
code at http://home.earthlink.net/~richpasco/pasbug.html

I would deeply appreciate anyone telling me just why the Pascal version
fails.  Trivial suggestions like "avoid floating point" or "restructure
it to avoid recursion" or "use the C version instead" are not helpful.

     - Rich





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