Robert P. Ewing wrote:

I've been moving an old program over to GPC, and ran across the following. Apparently the '**' operator works fine on variables, but it crashes if I put a hard-coded numerical value in for the base. The old y^x = exp(y ln x) workaround from Turbo seems to work fine. I don't know whether this is a new or a known bug.

This seems to be a bug in how the arguments to some operations on LongReal's (aka Extended) are passed, and real constants are assumed Extended by default. I added it to the bug list. Thanks for the report.

I note that if I write 'real(10.0)' rather than '10.0', the program runs just fine...

This would indeed be a useful workaround for now. (But AFAIR, TP doesn't like this -- if that's of any concern to you...)

Frank

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