> if you use the original declaration syntax of 40 years ago,
> float must be promoted to double because the caller won't know the type,
> but the ANSI declarator syntax that everyone ought to be using allows
> the distinction between float and double to be maintained, and it is.
> compare
>
> voi
On 27 February 2014 12:09, erik quanstrom wrote:
> did they abolish the rule that float is promoted to double
> on function call? or is this the equivalent of char fu(char) vs
> int fu(int).
>
if you use the original declaration syntax of 40 years ago,
float must be promoted to double because t
On Thu Feb 27 06:54:22 EST 2014, st...@quintile.net wrote:
> Porting stuff from the net (under ape) which wants to use IEEE floats.
> i.e. ieee754_float32_t, powf(), fabsf() and log10f().
>
> I could map these to plan9 floats and call the double version
> of the transient functions, but is there a
