[Gambas-user] gb3: incorrect result from equation using singles

[Kevin Fishburne]

On 01/27/2011 08:07 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> The variables cx and Client.relx are of datatype single. The initial
>> value of cx is 0 and Client.relx is 51. The code
>>
>> cx = (cx + Client.relx) / 2
>>
>> assigns the value 0 to cx. It should be 25.5.
>>
>> When I enter
>>
>> ?(cx + Client.relx) / 2
>>
>> in the debug/immediate window I get 2.7476892520342E-315. Have I lost my
>> mind, or is something seriously wrong here?
> I cannot reproduce that. As usual, please provide a project that shows the
> bug. And check that you use the latest revision.

The latest revision fixed that, sorry for the false alarm.

>> Also, Benoît, have the MkXXX$() functions been taken out of gb3 yet? I
>> want to compile the latest revision but haven't converted my networking
>> code to use structures yet.
> They will be removed sooner or later. You don't have to compile the latest
> revision. You can compile any revision you want by passing the "-r XXXX" to
> the subversion command, where "XXXX" is the revision number.

Cool, thanks for the tip.

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