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Article #2483Re: More on Small floating point constants are doubles?
From: Eugene Brooks
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 18:15
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 18:15
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In article <8903280946.AA14743@marvin.moncam.uucp> mcvax!moncam!paul@UUNET.UU.NET (Paul Hudson) writes: > >Dave Hanson points out that I can get float constants rather than doubles by appending an "F". > >I should have explained further ... ;-). I'm in the unfortunate position of having to keep >my code in a state where it can be compiled by ANSI and non-ANSI compilers. Adding >#ifdef __STDC round prototypes etc is bearable, but conditionally compiling a "f" after >all the floating point constants would get silly. Thus I'd like that option. Then use "(float)1.2" to get a float constant. This is portable to the old compilers and in fact was the way to get the job done on quite a few of them. brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!vette!brooks From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug Subject: Re: More on Small floating point constants are doubles? Message-ID: <22654@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 28 Mar 89 18:15:39 GMT References: <15894@princeton.Princeton.EDU> <8903280946.AA14743@marvin.moncam.uucp> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) Distribution: gnu Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 13