Re: real

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 28 Aug 2003, Peter Poulsen wrote:
> Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu> writes:
>
> > On 28 Aug 2003, Peter Poulsen wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have been looking at the code for Dia, and found that a lot of
> > > variables of the type 'real'. I have never seen that type before. Is it
> > > defined in some header-file, or is it an ordinary C-type? If the later
> > > is the case could somebody then point me in the direction of some
> > > info... it is causing me a lot problems as every non-int computation
> > > seems to go completely insane.
> >
> > It's defined in lib/geometry.h to be a double.  What system is this on?
> > Solaris again?
> >
> > -Lars
>
> Im running Gentoo 1.2. It's compiled with gcc-2.96.3, I don't know iff
> that could cause any problems.

I guess that's means an x86 system, then.  Wasn't 2.96 the strange CVS
snapshot gcc version that RedHat picked?  You might want to try either 2.95
or a 3.x, if those are handy for your system.

-Lars

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