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From: sdriscol@oclc.org (Steve Driscoll)
Subject: Re: And you thought that the Pentium bug was bad!  (Get a load of this!)
Date: 1995/06/22
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Mark (mal@infinet.com) wrote:
: : : double d = 0.9;
: : : int
: : : main ()
: : : {
: : :     double d = 0.8;
: : :     {
: : :         extern double d;
: : :         printf ("%f\n", d);
: : :         return 0;
: : :     }
: : : }
: : : This program *should* print 0.900000, and with most compilers, it does.
: : : But when compiled with one particular popular free C compiler, this
: : : program will print 0.800000.  

Let me see if I have this straight.  You're not reporting a problem 
with computation, but a problem with scoping variables with 
identical names.  Right?