C11.3.2) Errors when evaluating expressions involving reals and external calls
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C11.3.2) Errors when evaluating expressions involving reals and external calls
On all supported platforms, using both reals and external (C) calls in an
expression may yield unpredictable results.
For instance the following program
ORIGIN '~beta/basiclib/v1.5/math'; --PROGRAM: descriptor-- (# do (1->sqrt) -> putint; newline; (10->log10) -> putint; newline; (1->sqrt)+(10->log10) -> putint; newline; #)
will give the (wrong) output
1
1
4
on Solaris. The only known workaround is to split up the expressions, so
that the parts that call the external functions are isolated (like the first
part of the above program).
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