diff --git a/doc/langref.html.in b/doc/langref.html.in
index 3d3294e1e534..2c8caf4375fe 100644
--- a/doc/langref.html.in
+++ b/doc/langref.html.in
@@ -1120,6 +1120,10 @@
       otherwise the optimizer figures out all the values at compile-time,
       which operates in strict mode.</p>
       {#code|float_mode_exe.zig#}
+	  {#shell_samp#}$ zig build-exe float_mode_exe.zig -O ReleaseFast
+$ ./float_mode_exe
+optimized = 0.001
+strict = 0.0009765625{#end_shell_samp#}
 
       {#see_also|@setFloatMode|Division by Zero#}
       {#header_close#}
diff --git a/doc/langref/float_mode_exe.zig b/doc/langref/float_mode_exe.zig
index 02b731a7c502..29951bb6461c 100644
--- a/doc/langref/float_mode_exe.zig
+++ b/doc/langref/float_mode_exe.zig
@@ -10,3 +10,7 @@ pub fn main() void {
 }
 
 // syntax
+// This file requires the object file of float_mode_obj.zig
+// Currently the automatic generation of the langref runs each file independently
+// and does therefore not support this use case
+// The output for this snippet is written into the langref manually as a workaround