Re: Microsoft's so called programmers (ROTFL! :-)

From:
Greg Herlihy <greghe@mac.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:29:02 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<4d35a119-fcf5-4f6e-908f-39bbe774f7f8@x19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 19, 3:08 pm, Vyacheslav Kononenko
<vyacheslav.konone...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 19, 5:09 pm, Mirco Wahab <wahab-m...@gmx.de> wrote:

Adem24 wrote:

Microsoft's so called programmers write braindamaged programs
and confusing buggy examples and help pages like that below.
It is even from the online "help" (ROTFL! :-) of their "compiler" (RO=

TFL! :-):

<CITATION_FROM_THE_MSDN_LIBRARY>

/* FMOD.C: This program displays a
 * floating-point remainder.
 */

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void main( void )
{
   double w = -10.0, x = 3.0, y = 0.0, z;

   z = fmod( x, y );
   printf( "The remainder of %.2f / %.2f is %f\n", w, x, z );
   printf( "The remainder of %.2f / %.2f is %f\n", x, y, z );

}

Output

The remainder of -10.00 / 3.00 is -1.000000

</CITATION_FROM_THE_MSDN_LIBRARY>


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/20dckbeh(VS.71).aspx


They fixed it in .NET !!!


... which means that the problem cited in the Visual Studio 7.1
documentation was fixed at least four years ago (for Visual C++ .NET)
and in fact remains correct in the documentation for their current C++
compiler (Visual C++ 2008):

   // crt_fmod.c
   // This program displays a floating-point remainder.

    #include <math.h>
    #include <stdio.h>

    int main( void )
    {
       double w = -10.0, x = 3.0, z;

       z = fmod( w, x );
       printf( "The remainder of %.2f / %.2f is %f\n", w, x, z );
    }

Output:

    The remainder of -10.00 / 3.00 is -1.000000

Greg

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