bug in float on Pentium

[Joe <joeja@mindspring.com>]

Not sure but I think I found a NEW bug.

I know that there have been some issues with pentiums and floating point
arrithmatic, but this takes the cake...

Linux Lserver.org 2.2.18 #43 SMP Fri Mar 9 14:19:41 EST 2001 i586
unknown

>kgcc --version
egcs-2.91.66

RH 6.2.x / 7.0

try this program

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

    char tmpx[100];
 char tmpy[100];

 double x = 5483.99;
 float y = 5483.99;

    sprintf (tmpx, "%f",x );
    sprintf (tmpy, "%f",y );

 printf ("%s\n%s\n", tmpx, tmpy);
 return 0;
}


I am getting the following as output

joeja@Lserver$ ./testf
5483.990000
5483.990234


what is with the .990234??  it should be .990000

any ideas on this??

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