"defined" directive with floating point literals.

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l_inc

Joined: 23 Oct 2009
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l_inc 20 Nov 2015, 15:47

Is there a reason for the following to not compile?

Code:

if defined 2.3
  display 'yes',13,10
else
  display 'no',13,10
end if

Floating point numbers are defined to be valid numeric expressions.

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20 Nov 2015, 15:47

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 20 Nov 2015, 17:59

I'd qualify this as a bug. The floating point numbers are a special type of value that is allowed only in a few specific places and almost no operators can be applied to them, that is probably the reason why I overlooked this.

20 Nov 2015, 17:59

l_inc

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l_inc 21 Nov 2015, 02:00

That was exactly my guess. But at the same time I was positively surprised about not encountering a similar bug in the context of relativeto .

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21 Nov 2015, 02:00

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 05 Dec 2015, 13:23

Turns out that this case was already implemented, too - but it contains a bug, one of the constants defining the adjustment to the source pointer in EXPRCALC.INC is wrong:

Code:

defined_fp_value:
        add     esi,12
        jmp     expression_checked

It should be 13 there.

05 Dec 2015, 13:23

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