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[Chuan-jun He]

Hi, Dear Sir

I have a very simple program below, gdb can't print the value of fabs(1.0+3.5). Is it a bug?

Really appreciate.

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Reading symbols from /home/chuanchun/Bureau/a.out...done.

(gdb) list

1 #include "stdio.h"

2 #include <stdlib.h>

3 #include <math.h>

4

5

6 void main()

7 {

8 printf( "%lf.\n", fabs(1.0+3.5));

9 }

(gdb) b 8

Breakpoint 1 at 0x400538: file a.c, line 8.

(gdb) r

Starting program: /home/chuanchun/Bureau/a.out 

Breakpoint 1, main () at a.c:8

8 printf( "%lf.\n", fabs(1.0+3.5));

(gdb) p fabs(1.0+3.5)

$1 = 1

Regards,
Chuanjun HE