Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!oddjob!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!olson From: olson@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: BUG - unsigned long cast to double Message-ID: <1239500003@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 15 Aug 88 16:18:00 GMT References: <1239500001@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> Lines: 8 Nf-ID: #R:osiris.cso.uiuc.edu:1239500001:osiris.cso.uiuc.edu:1239500003:000:401 Nf-From: osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!olson Aug 15 11:18:00 1988 I muddied the waters using printf ... different machines accept different things... However, we examined the assembly language as compiled, and SUN and PYRAMID compilers assemble differently. The bug is real. I expect the response about which BSD version one has is the key. Our Pyramid has 4.2BSD... and the bug exists there. I received mail from a CONVEX user whose machine compiled incorrectly.