[fpc-pascal] float calculates rubbish

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sun Mar 6 23:02:17 CET 2005


> $ ./testlongfloat
> 1109081216
> 1109081216.00
> 554540608
> 554540608.00
> 
> Am I producing a value overflow here or what's happening? The whole
> thing is running on i386 with fpc 1.9.4.

glib redefined float as 32-bit single, which has much lower precision, which
in turn causes the rounding.

Try recompiling the above test without glib, but with math (which contains
the Delphi/FPC float definition).




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