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Folks:

There is a bug in BC++ 2.0's sprintf routine which shows up in Windows
applications - certain floating point numbers don't get ascii-fied 
correctly.

For example, the following doesn't work:

sprintf(str, "%f", (float) 24 / 27);

After the above call, str has a value of "1.0" but should have a
value of "0.8888888888888888".

I haven't been able to make this bug happen in DOS but it does occur in
Windows.

PLEASE DON'T call Borland - I already called this one in and they're working
on it.

The workaround is to write your own floating-point to ascii conversion
routine.  Unfortunately the other floating-point to ascii conversion
routines in BC++ 2.0 suffer from the same bug (at least the ones I tried -
fcvt, ecvt, gcvt, etc).

I've written a function to convert floats to the corresponding ascii string -
nothing fancy but it works.  If there is sufficient interest I'll post it.


Hope this message is useful,


Terrell