Re: [OT] C90 IDE+compiler for Windows / educational purposes
Ioannis Vranos <ivranos@nospam.no.spamfreemail.gr> writes:
> Do you know of any decent free simple C90 IDE+compiler for Windows for
> use in a classroom? I know Dev-C++/MINGW but "long double" doesn't
> work correctly there.
>
> Any ideas would be welcome.
As I recall from discussions here, the problem is an inconsistency
between the compiler and the runtime library regarding the
representation of long double. Either choice would be valid by
itself, but the inconsistency is a bug.
How much of a problem is that really? What if you just avoid the use
of long double in the class?
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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) <kst-u@mib.org>
Nokia
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