Bug report

[Krzysztof Gozdziewski]

Hello!

I have found a strange  behaviour of the gpc compiler,
when reading real numbers, having the form 
     x.xxe+00
They are converted to 0. 

The sample session follows.

Thanks.
Krzysztof Gozdziewski

/home/chris/Gravity>uname -a
Linux ecia 2.0.30 #2 Sat Sep 27 15:42:44 MET DST 1997 i486

/home/chris/Gravity>gpc --version
2.0(2.7.2.1)

/home/chris/Gravity>more test.p
program testbug;
var
  a : real;
begin
   writeln('Enter 1.0e+00 to reproduce the error');
   readln( a );
   writeln( 'a =  ', a );
end.

/home/chris/Gravity>gpc test.p

/home/chris/Gravity>a.out
Enter 1.0e+00 to reproduce the error
1.0e+00
a =   2.1883084e-314
/home/chris/Gravity>a.out

Enter 1.0e+00 to reproduce the error
2
a =   2.0000000e+00

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