Sirs,

        I am puzzled.  I am using gpc on a unix system (Irix 6.5).  When the
compiler was built, we had to turn off the -g flag everywhere in the Makefiles(which, we understand, is a common problem) in
order to complete the build.  Below is a small program which simply writes out a real number using
'writeln'.  It compiles fine, but generates garbage output:



program testprog(input,output);
var
   x    : real;

begin
   x := 10.0;
   writeln('The value of x is ',x);
end.




This code produces the following line of output on my machine(SGI):

The value of x is  /// /////////e-//8//8



What's up with this????
Thanks for any help you can give.
Stuart Pope


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