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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Float point format not loaded?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.174634.15432@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1he75eINNmlg@uwm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:46:34 GMT
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- In <1he75eINNmlg@uwm.edu> pegasus@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David R Hucke) writes:
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- >Hi everybody!
-
- >I am having a problem with Turbo C 2.0.
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- >I am writing a program that does some float calculations and when I run the
- >program I get a run-time error saying: Floating point formats not loaded.
- >Abnormal termination.
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- >I have included math.h float.h and even declared a float variable.
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- >The problem appears on a scanf instruction.
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- >Any ideas how to clear up this little problem?
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- Try DOING something with the fp variable that you declared (assign to
- it or something). Otherwise, the floating point libraries don't get
- linked in.
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- I think this may be in the FAQ -- it is asked that often.
-
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