GPC Bug?

26 Mar 2002

      Hello, 

I tried compiling this simple program, with GPC RC3 (20020304),  with GCC 
2.95.3  (20010315). 

program espa;

var

i, j, k: integer;

esp: double;

res: double;

begin

for i := 1 to 50 do begin

  esp :=  i * 1000 ;

  res := exp ( -esp );

  writeln (' Minus the exponential of  ', esp :1 :0, '  is ', res  :1 :15 );

end;

end.

Surprisingly, and disappointingly, when I run it I get the following result:

espa: error in exponentiation (Numerical result out of range) (error #700 at 
8049c75)

while with any Pascal (like FPC), and C compiler, I get no error (like it 
should be ). It really looks like a bug.

Can anyone help?

Thanks, regards

Silvio a Beccara