#42 GDC not handling floats correctly

[revcompgeek]

When compiling the following code:
module floattest;

import tango.io.Stdout;

void main(){
float x = 3.14;
double y = 3.14;
Stdout(x).newline;
Stdout(y).newline;
Stdout(cast(double)x).newline;
}

and running it, the following output is produced:

2.14
3.14
3.14

This is not a problem with Tango, because tango users using dmd do not have this problem. I am on Mac OS 10.4 using the latest gdcmac distribution.

[Valeriu Palos]

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I tried this and got mixed results for 32bit and 64bit.

On 32bit architecture (Ubuntu Hardy i386):
3.68e+19
3.14
3.14

On 64bit architecture (Ubuntu Hardy amd64):
3.14
3.14
3.14

So it seems to to the right job when gdc compiles for 64bit architectures. Hmmm...