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From: David Means <dmeans@the-means.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Strange behavior
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 15:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1015110579.11661.12.camel@milo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003501c1c22f$cd7c9570$0300000a@FSHPXP>

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I don't think it's cygwin.

Looks like something in gnu (complier or libs?).

David

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72$ uname -a && g++ --version && ./rtest2
Linux milo 2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
2.96
5/4
1
-1/4
1
3/8
1
2/3
0

319$ uname -a && g++ --version ; ./rtest2
SunOS opus 5.7 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
2.95.3
5/4
1
-1/4
1
3/8
1
2/3
1

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 16:18, Chuck Allison wrote:
> I have a simple Rational number class and have discovered  weird behavior
> with Cygwin's g++. If you look at the very short main program in file
> rtest2.cpp, you will see by the output that g++ get's the wrong answer for
> 
> r1 / r2 == Rational(2,3); // should be true
> 
> even though it prints as 2/3! Borland and Microsoft get it right. Any ideas?
> All code atached.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Chuck Allison (The Harmonious CodeSmith)
> -- Senior Editor, C/C++ Users Journal
> -- cda@freshsources.com
> 
> ----
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-02 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-02 13:18 Chuck Allison
2002-03-02 15:09 ` David Means [this message]
2002-03-03 18:05 Ross Smith
2002-03-03 18:32 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-03-03 20:49   ` Richard R. Malloy
2002-03-03 21:08     ` Chuck Allison
2002-03-03 21:26 Robert Collins
2002-03-03 21:42 Gareth Pearce

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