Re: Question: Using floating point in the kernel

[Matthias Andree]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

>       long int radians = (long) (2.0 * 3.141592654 * (float) HZ);

Just out of curiosity: what's that cast to float about? Have it spring
into the eye of a casual reader? That pi constant already is a double
and C implicitly casts to the type with the wider range/higher
precision.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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