lebedev.ri added inline comments.

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Comment at: docs/clang-tidy/checks/readability-magic-numbers.rst:61-63
+configuration for accepted floating point values, primarily because most
+floating point comparisons are not exact, and some of the exact ones are not
+portable.
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aaron.ballman wrote:
> 0x8000-0000 wrote:
> > aaron.ballman wrote:
> > > I am curious to know how true this is. You got some data for integer 
> > > values and reported it, but I'm wondering if you've tried the same 
> > > experiment with floating-point numbers?
> > The problem with the floating point numbers as text is: they need to be 
> > parsed both from the configuration and from the source code _then_ 
> > compared. What is an acceptable epsilon? I don't know. Is the same epsilon 
> > acceptable on all source code? I don't know.
> Yeah, I'm not too worried about the situations in which the epsilon matters. 
> I'm more worried that we'll see a lot of 1.0, 2.0 floating-point literals 
> where the floating-point value is a nice, round, easy-to-represent number but 
> users have no way to disable this diagnostic short of `const float Two = 
> 2.0f;`
Random thought: the types that are ignored should/could be configurable, i.e. 
there should be a switch
whether or not to complain about floats.


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D49114



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