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In article <48sms5$rba@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> ua302aa@sun2.lrz-muenchen.de (Kurt Watzka) writes:
 > dallaire@megatoon.com (Guy Dallaire) writes:
...
 > >    int i=3;
 > >    float f;
 > >    double d;
 > >    a=i;
 > >    b=i;
...
 > Maybe you wanted to know whether they will be stored in f and d
 > exactly?

Making that assumption, I do not think that the standard has any
requirements on the precision of the conversion.  So even if 3.0
would fit in a float or a double, there is no guarantee that the
result will be that value.  (And you may be in for some surprises,
there have been machines were 0.0 was not a valid floating point
number, *all* floating point numbers were non-zero.)
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